GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (AP) A deputy in Virginia single-handedly lifted an overturned car to free a woman pinned underneath. In a body camera recording that the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office shared Tuesday on Facebook, Deputy Jon Holt can be heard pulling over in his patrol vehicle and telling dispatch that the car is “flipped […]
A police officer in Virginia is being hailed as a hero after video was shared of him single-handedly lifting an overturned car off of a woman s head as her child screamed for help nearby.
The incident occurred on May 7 in Gloucester County, Virginia, when Deputy Jon Holt was responding to a report of an overturned vehicle with an entrapment, according to a statement from the Gloucester County Sheriff s Office. The video was released by authorities on May 18. The driver was laying underneath the vehicle with her head pinned by the sunroof, the Gloucester County Sheriff s Office statement read. Seeing the trauma her child was witnessing, Deputy J. Holt went into overdrive.
A deputy in Virginia single-handedly lifted an overturned car to free a woman pinned underneath.
In a body camera recording that the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office shared Tuesday on Facebook, Deputy Jon Holt can be heard pulling over in his patrol vehicle and telling dispatch that the car is flipped upside down.
The one-minute clip at the scene of the accident on May 7 then shows Holt running to the vehicle where one child is screaming that his mother is stuck. The deputy helps another smaller child out of the car, and then he can be heard groaning as he lifts the vehicle.
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