Van pulled out of Big Spring Park pond, 91-year-old driver thought it was parking lot
A driver visiting Huntsville took a wrong turn and wound up in the pond at Big Spring Park Thursday morning.
Sgt. Rosalind White of Huntsville police said the incident happened shortly before 9 a.m.
Officers were called to the pond in the 200 block of Church Street on a report of a vehicle in the water.
White said the driver, a 91-year-old man, believed the pond to be a parking lot.
The driver was able to exit the vehicle safely. There were no reported injuries.