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Unwanted carpool: Homeowner injured after family saloon flies into her swimming pool

'I had had a long and tiring day and had only been in the water for a couple of minutes'

Svetlana Mournova suffered minor injuries when a car plunged into her pool. (CEN)

A woman's relaxing dip in her private pool was rudely interrupted - after a car smashed through a wall and plunged into the water.

Svetlana Mournova, 34, was enjoying an evening swim at her home near Volgograd, south-western Russia, when the out-of-control car ended up in the pool.

She was grazed on the head by the vehicle driven by Vitali Modenko, 36, who had his wife Lena, 36, and two-year-old son Sasha inside.

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After spotting Svetlana was lying face down in the water, Modenko struggled out of his car and told his wife to take care of their child while attended to the woman.



In a TV interview to local media he said: "I just climbed out through my open window as the car began to fill up and swam across to the woman. There was a little blood in the water by her head.  I got hold of her and dragged her out. I could see she was breathing so I left her to help my wife and son.

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"I just don't know what happened. The curve outside her home was quite tight but I wasn't going too fast. I suddenly felt the steering wasn't responding any more and as I pulled the wheel to go one way, the car just wanted to go another.

"My car is a total wreck but that doesn't matter. At least no-one died."

Mrs Mournova was treated for slight head injuries in the local hospital but later released. She said: "I had had a long and tiring day and had only been in the water for a couple of minutes when I was joined by the car.

"I don't really remember much at all except thinking 'Can this really be happening?' I was lucky it was only a glancing blow. I could have been crushed."