TRACY – First responders saved a man's life who stopped breathing after a vehicle he was in crashed into a drainage ditch near Tracy on Sunday, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said.

Deputies and the California Highway Patrol responded to Paradise Avenue and Lucerne Avenue around 11 a.m. after a driver lost control and crashed a vehicle into a drainage ditch full of water.

"We received a call for service in regard to aiding with CHP for an overturned vehicle that possibly gone into water," Deputy Garrett Bergren said. "The initial call for service came out with two possible adults in the vehicle, along with two juveniles."

The first deputy who arrived at the scene found other people in the water trying to help two adults trapped in the vehicle.

The driver of the vehicle was even

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