81-year-old AR man escapes car crash in flooded ditch

MARION, Ark. — An elderly Arkansas father was rescued from a flooded ditch by his son Thursday night.

Jerry Webb says it was raining hard when he was coming home. When he was about to turn into his subdivision, the 81-year-old accidentally drove his car into a ditch.

“Went in that flood, and that flood just took me right through those two tunnels. I could hear it hitting on my car, and I’m like what the hell is that,” said Webb.

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Webb said that it happened in an instant after he accidentally ran his car off the road.

“I’m hysterical, I’m sure because I thought this was it because I got no way out of this place,” said Webb…

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