PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — New video sent to Action News Jax by a viewer shows a Nease High School lacrosse coach swimming to save a semi-truck driver who crashed in a retention pond.
In the video, you can see the coach guiding the driver back to the side of the pond.
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A spokesperson with the St. Johns County School District said this happened on Friday somewhere on Interstate 95.
According to a Facebook post, the lacrosse team was on the way to West Palm Beach for a game when they saw it all unfold.
We’re told the coach made the charter bus driver stop so he could go in and save the truck driver.
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