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Bodycam Shows Fort Worth Officers and Bystanders Lift Overturned Car to Save Baby on I-30

Police released video of the rescue, which captures officers reviving the child before paramedics took over.

Overview

  • The rollover crash happened Thursday morning on Interstate 30 between Eastchase Parkway and Cooks Lane, ejecting a woman and her 1-year-old child.
  • Sgt. R. Nichols and Officer E. Bounds coordinated with passing motorists to lift the overturned vehicle and pull the unresponsive infant from beneath it.
  • The officers performed CPR until the baby began breathing and crying, with MedStar paramedics arriving around 9:40 a.m. after officers reached the scene near 9:28 a.m.
  • Fort Worth police say both the mother and child are stable and expected to make a full recovery, and the department publicly praised the officers and citizens who helped.
  • Investigators have not said what caused the crash or whether the child was restrained, and no information about possible penalties has been released.