Vehicle Pulled From Pleasant Prairie Retention Pond; Driver Uninjured

Vehicle pulled from Pleasant Prairie retention pond; driver uninjured

Emergency crews—including Pleasant Prairie police and fire departments—responded to the scene of a vehicle in a retention pond on Sunday night, June 21.

Car Pulled Out of a Pleasant Prairie Retention Pond; Driver Swims to Shore

June 22, 2026 4:10p (WGTD)---Pleasant Prairie Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding a driver who wound up in a LakeView Corporate Park retention pond. Firefighters were called to a pond located just north of the former Jelly Belly retail store Sunday night around 10. They found a slowly sinking car. The driver--a 19 year-old woman from Rio, Wisconsin--was able to get out on her own and swim to shore. Police said she …