A suspected drunk driver was saved by a residential swimming pool that happened to be in the perfect location to break her fall when she was ejected from her car.

The incident occurred December 15 in Clark County, Nevada, when a Chevrolet Equinox plowed through a property wall, launched into the air, landed on a pool house roof, and came to rest on a backyard patio.

Upon collision with the wall, the woman was ejected from the vehicle, landing in the pool's shallow end. The homeowner’s surveillance camera showed the woman floating in the pool before recovering to her hands and knees. The homeowner, Cletis Reed, had just stepped into his house from the backyard when he heard the collision.

“It sounded like a freight train,” Reed said. “I figured something happened in the street and I come out to see my entire backyard destroyed. I mean everything was just blown up.”

He said the driver was conscious when he pulled her from the water.

“She kept floating face up, she flipped over face down,” Reed said. “She was conscious, but she was moaning and groaning. We get her out, God’s witness, she stands up 15 minutes later getting interviewed by police.”

Just moments before the crash, Reed had been preparing to use his hot tub, which sits directly beneath the poolhouse roof struck by the vehicle. He said he had just removed the hot tub cover and stepped inside the house.

“I popped the cover on and I was like, you know, I gotta tell my wife something,” Reed said. “And by the grace of God I’m here. I would have been dead. It would have killed me.”

The near miss was even more impressive for the woman, who survived ejection from a headon collision with a cinderblock wall.“She ended up right in the shallow end,” Reed said. “If she went four feet that way… She was blessed, and I was blessed,” Reed said. As the saying goes, God watches over children, fools, and drunks.