A group of young students has been hailed for their bravery after they saved a woman who crashed her car into a lake in Sydney yesterday.
The TAFE students swam into the lake at Olympic Park, in the city's west, to pull the woman from her sinking vehicle.
Cooper Judd, one of the students, says they were on a bus returning from an excursion to the Royal Easter Show when they noticed the woman hunched over the steering wheel of her car as it ploughed towards the lake.
"We looked back and we saw her coming down these stairs. We were telling the bus driver to stop," he said.
"All of us just ran down. Tom and Luke ran into the water and got her window down.
"Then me and Blake came in after and me and Blake pulled her out of the car and got her back up here."
Tom Walmslui was one of the students who reached the woman first.
"A few of the boys saw the lady hunched over the steering wheel. We got the bus driver to turn around and me and Luke jumped out the emergency exit and just jumped straight in and swam out to her," he said.
"All her windows were up, so I had to push her windows down. She wasn't ready to come out, she kept saying that her daughter and husband were still in the car, but there was no-one else."
The woman was treated by paramedics at the scene.
Her husband, David Milkovic, says the young men deserve bravery awards.
"I'd just like to thank the boys from the bottom of my heart. Without them who knows what could have happened, my wife could have died," he said.
"They deserve bravery awards. They're awesome, awesome fellas."
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