Police Lift Car to Rescue 70-Year-Old Woman
A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized Wednesday morning after being rescued from underneath her car in Bear, according to the New Castle County Police Department.
She marks one of two people in the last two days to experience injuries associated with their vehicles while not on the road.
Police body camera footage recorded at 8:16 a.m. showed the woman’s left arm pinned under her car on Fieldstone Lane in Country Creek. One of her legs was also trapped under the front-left tire.
Five officers lifted the car off of the woman together, the body camera footage showed. They were assisted by a neighbor with a car jack who had tried to free the woman before police arrived.
Police reported that the bystander was unsuccessful on his own because the jack was not high enough. But Mark R. Logemann, chief of the New Castle County Emergency Medical Services Division, said in a statement that the man’s efforts “played a major role in this patient being protected from further injury, and possibly death.”
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