Orlando, FL – Several police officers from the Orlando Police Department are being credited with saving the lives of a father and a four-year-0ld boy who were trapped in a submerged vehicle.

Body cam footage shows a 12-year-old boy crying and begging police to help his father and his brother out of the vehicle, which was upside down in a retention pond near Lee Vista Boulevard and Vista East Parkway. The 44-year-old father was driving a Nissan Sentra when reportedly an animal ran out into the roadway. He swerved to avoid a collision, but lost control, hit a curb, and drove over the median and into the pond.

A bystander witnessed the collision and rushed to help [...]