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Had the cop not spotted the wreck off in the dark. if you hadn't stopped, if you'd just went on your merry way -- >> my involvement was this was just a citizen driving up the road stopping to check on somebody that morning, you know? >> reporter: had the deputy's instinct not pushed him to seize david's car? he probably would have been caught, eventually but what do you think about this now when you look back on it >> thankful. very thankful for that i, one, trusted my gut, because we're trained do to that from day one. because it's the only thing you really got to back yourself up on on calls...

Ray valleja joins us. >> reporter: you can see cars are trying to get through 610 right now. all the water that has swamped over this, all the lanes of traffic are covered in a pond of water. this isn't the only highway in houston that looks just like this. if you look next to me, this is a service road. you can barely actually see that service road. the truck, there's a truck right down there. we talked to a woman that was rescued from that big rig. she said she turned the car off and it started sucking the truck right back down into the water, she thought she was going to drown. another citi...