Fort Worth officers rescue 1-year-old from overturned car after crash
Two Fort Worth police officers, aided by bystanders, pulled a 1-year-old girl from beneath an overturned car and revived her after a crash on Interstate 30 on Thursday morning, officials said. The collision occurred around 9:30 a.m. on I-30 between Eastchase Parkway and Cooks Lane, and both the child and her mother were ejected from the vehicle, Fort Worth police said.
Body camera footage released by the Fort Worth Police Department shows officers arriving to find a red vehicle flipped on its roof in the grassy median and a distraught woman calling for her child. An officer is heard saying, "I think the baby's under here. We need to move the car." He and other officers directed motorists and bystanders to lift the vehicle just enough for an officer to reach underneath, grab the child's legs and pull her free.
The infant was unresponsive when removed. Sgt. R. Nichols immediately began chest compressions while Officer E. Bounds checked for breathing and a pulse, according to the department. After a period of resuscitation on the grass, the child made faint noises and then began to cry. Paramedics later transported the infant and the mother to a local hospital; police said both are...