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Bodycam video shows the woman’s left arm and leg pinned under the vehicle’s front left tire, while her right leg was stuck in the wheel well.
Police and a good Samaritan lifted an SUV to rescue a 70-year-old woman pinned underneath last week.
(New Castle County Division of Police)
Before crime arrived, police said a neighbor had tried to lift the SUV using a jack, but the jack was too short.
The good Samaritan, identified as Kyle Stant, told WPVI-TV he “did everything in my power” to help his neighbor.
New Castle County police and a good Samaritan quickly decide how best to rescue the woman.
(New Castle County Division of Police)
“She said, ‘Kyle, please help me, don’t leave me’ and I told her, ‘I am not going to leave you,'” Stant said. “’We are going to get through this. We are going to get you out.’”
Video shows Stant and four officers lifting the vehicle high enough so that a fifth officer could pull the 70-year-old out from under the wheel.
Officers and the bystander lifted the vehicle that pinned the woman underneath.
(New Castle County Division of Police)
Police said that woman was treated for injuries at a local hospital.
An officer pulled the woman out after four other officers and a good Samaritan partially lifted the vehicle.
(New Castle County Division of Police)
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Mark Logemann, chief of the New Castle County Emergency Medical Services Division, praised Stant and the officers for their heroic actions.
“The quick thinking and physical actions of the bystander and the officers from the Division of Police played a major role in this patient being protected from further injury and possibly death,” Logemann said.
Police told WPVI that the woman had forgotten to put the vehicle in park when exiting and got stuck underneath when the vehicle rolled.