A Paulding County, Georgia, deputy responded to a car in a lake and ended up witnessing one of the most honest drunk driving confessions ever recorded on bodycam.
Sometimes a car crash tells the whole story before a single question gets asked. That was very much the case when Paulding County deputies were called to a scene on Lake Road in Dallas, Georgia, where a vehicle had left the roadway and plunged into a small, shallow private lake. Deputies had no idea what they were walking into. What they got was something nobody could have scripted.
When the responding deputy jogged over to the submerged car, the driver was already out of the water and very much alive. She was standing on the bank, soaking wet, and doing what apparently felt most urgent to her in that moment: answering her phone. Not calling 911. Not flagging down help. Answering a call from her dad…