Dramatic footage shows Phoenix, Arizona, police rescuing a man from a car submerged in a swimming pool at an apartment complex. According to the department, the man said he "accidentally stepped on the gas too hard."

Members of the Phoenix Police Department are being credited with saving a man’s life after they pulled him out of a car submerged in a pool.

A man was trapped in a submerged car after crashing into a swimming pool, and a Phoenix police officer leaped into the water to make a dramatic rescue.