It’s like a scene from a superhero movie—in May of 2021, cameras caught a woman being crushed to death in Virginia when this deputy sheriff lifts a car off of her.
How the Heroic Sheriff Lifts a Car
Deputy Sheriff, Jon Holt is strong and all, but strong enough to lift a car? Your first reaction is probably doubtful, but he really did it. Here’s what happened:
On Mother’s Day weekend of 2021, Deputy Sheriff Jon Holt was on duty in Gloucester County, Virginia, and he had just responded to a call and was headed back to headquarters when he came upon a terrible crash. An SUV was upside-down on the wrong side of the road. The vehicle had reportedly lost control, swerved onto the opposite side of the road and crashed.
Holt responded immediately and found that a woman’s head was trapped under the flipped SUV where the sunroof was. The woman’s children were nearby and was sobbing and had begun to panic.
Holt said, “I see the female laying with her head pinned underneath the vehicle.”
He explains that the other couldn’t breathe so he knew he had to do something immediately. “You can’t let a child see their mom pass away,” he explained, sharing he wanted to demonstrate bravery to the panicking children.
Holt said, “I have to be that reassuring figure, even though inside I’m frantically figuring out what I need to do.”
So what does he do? Holt’s bodycam shows him trying to lift the 4,000-pound SUV, and it didn’t work at first.
Watch the footage here:
Holt runs to the car and asks the crying daughter, “Is she under it?”
The child screams, “Yes!”
In the midst of trying to help, the woman’s frantic son is nearby screaming. Holt calmly has the boy move back, and then something amazing happens. “Come here. Come here, buddy!” Holt says to the son.