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Video: First responder pulls mom, 2 kids from sinking car in Minn.

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July 29, 2010

Video: First responder pulls mom, 2 kids from sinking car in Minn.

Dramatic rescue recorded by a traffic management camera

The Associated Press

RICHFIELD, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Transportation says a state highway first responder rescued a Twin Cities woman and her two children after the mother drove their car off a highway and into a pond.

A department spokesman says the emergency worker, Don Machacek, arrived at the pond in Richfield, just south of Minnesota, Wednesday afternoon to find the vehicle "nose-first and sinking."

He says Machacek opened a rear passenger door and pulled the three to safety. The car continued to sink.

The woman and her children, ages 8 and 10, are OK.

The dramatic rescue was recorded by a traffic management camera.

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The spokesman says the driver misjudged her exit from the Interstate 35W.

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