A TEENAGER rescued a pregnant woman after the car she was a passenger in plunged into a river.

Lynton Lythgoe, 18, dragged the woman out of the sinking car. The Ford Fiesta plummeted into the Little Stour at Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury, after a collision with another car just after 12.30pm on Monday.

Lynton was the first person to jump in to rescue the woman. Her husband managed to free himself.

He said: "They are lucky to be alive. The car could have easily flipped over. The woman was screaming, the car was quickly filling up with water, it must have been terrifying."

The unnamed couple in the car suffered from shock, but were otherwise unhurt.