GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. — A rush of adrenaline can be a powerful thing. A sheriff’s deputy in Virginia was able to lift a car that had trapped a woman.
The Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office shared body camera video from the May 7 crash, WTVR reported.
The Gloucester Sheriff’s Office would like to again recognize Deputy J. Holt on another unbelievable incident that occurred on May 7, 2021. As many know, Deputy J. Holt recently accepted both the local and regional Top Cop Awards from the Greater Hampton Roads Regional Crime Line on February 2, 2021 for his commitment to public safety after saving the lives of 2 individuals from a burning house on the afternoon of March 24, 2020. He wasn’t done! On May 7th, Deputy J. Holt responded to an overturned vehicle with an entrapment. The driver was laying underneath the vehicle with her head pinned by the sunroof. Seeing the trauma her child was witnessing, Deputy J. Holt went into overdrive. 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 GCSO would like to share a portion of Dep. J. Holt’s body camera video as it captured this tremendous act.
Posted by Gloucester County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Deputy J. Holt arrived at an overturned car that had a woman pinned underneath, trapped by the car’s sunroof.
A child was calling for help, saying that his mother couldn’t breathe and yelling “mommy” over and over again.
Then as the camera goes dark, you can hear Holt straining as he apparently lifts the car enough for the woman to slide her head out.
“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 sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook.
This isn’t the first time Holt was recognized for going above and beyond the call of duty.
He had been given the local and regional Top Cop Awards from the Greater Hampton Roads Regional Crime Line after he saved two people from a burning house in 2020, WWBT reported.
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