Bodycam video: Deputy single-handedly lifts overturned vehicle off woman to save her
Updated: 5:20 AM EDT May 20, 2021
A Virginia sheriff's deputy, confronted with an overturned car and a child inside screaming for his mother, lifted the vehicle to save the woman trapped underneath, according to the Gloucester Sheriff's Office.When Gloucester Sheriff's Deputy J. Holt arrived at the scene on May 7, he found a boy sitting in the overturned car screaming "mommy" and "she can't breathe." His mother was lying under the vehicle with her head pinned by the sunroof, according to the post."Seeing the trauma her child was witnessing, Deputy J. Holt went into overdrive," the sheriff's office wrote.Holt can be heard saying he couldn't lift the car, but then he told the boy to exit the vehicle and Holt can be heard straining on the body camera footage."Through sheer will and determination due to fearing the female may succumb to her circumstance in front of her panic-stricken child, Deputy J. Holt took quick action and was able to physically lift the vehicle up enough for the driver to maneuver her head out to safety," the post said.
A Virginia sheriff's deputy, confronted with an overturned car and a child inside screaming for his mother, lifted the vehicle to save the woman trapped underneath, according to the Gloucester Sheriff's Office.
When Gloucester Sheriff's Deputy J. Holt arrived at the scene on May 7, he found a boy sitting in the overturned car screaming "mommy" and "she can't breathe." His mother was lying under the vehicle with her head pinned by the sunroof, according to the post.
"Seeing the trauma her child was witnessing, Deputy J. Holt went into overdrive," the sheriff's office wrote.
Holt can be heard saying he couldn't lift the car, but then he told the boy to exit the vehicle and Holt can be heard straining on the body camera footage.
"Through sheer will and determination due to fearing the female may succumb to her circumstance in front of her panic-stricken child, Deputy J. Holt took quick action and was able to physically lift the vehicle up enough for the driver to maneuver her head out to safety," the post said.
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