the officer is working the day shift when a strange call comes over the radio. the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drive over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver s door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it s something i ve never seen in over 20 years of police work. he s basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he s got the door open and he s got his legs hanging out of the car. that s when i realized he didn t have brakes. the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. officer povarente knows he has to act fast.
the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drive over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver s door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it was something i d never seen in over 20 years of police work. he s basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he s got the door open and he s got his legs hanging out of the car. that s when i realized he didn t have brakes. the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. he knows he has to act fast. first thing i was trying to think of is how we could stop the motor vehicle.
the officer is working the day shift when a strange call comes over the radio. the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drive over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver s door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it was something i d never seen in over 20 years of police work. he s basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he s got the door open and he s got his legs hanging out of the car. that s when i realized he didn t have brakes. the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. the officer knows he has to act fast. first thing i was trying to
footage of the race to save baby lily. take a moment and sit and watch this. reporter: new body cam video from one of the spanish fork officers as he rushes to the overturned car. what you got? what you got? reporter: you can hear their desperation as they try to flip the car. let s go, guys! reporter: they soon discovered grossbeck dead in the driver s seat but they do find a survivor. oh, god! reporter: they pull a tiny body from the wreckage and run up the hill. definitely hypothermic. she is breathing! reporter: patting her back and willing her to live. come on, sweetie. reporter: they perform baby cpr and rush her into the hospital. 18-month-old lily was submerged in the car in the frigid spanish fork river in utah for about 14 hours. she had survived hanging upside down in freezing temperatures in the upper 20s with no food or
the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drove over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver s door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it was something i d never seen in over 20 years of police work. he s basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he s got the door open and he s got his legs hanging out of the car. that s when i realized he didn t have brakes. the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. the officer knows he has to act fast. first thing i was trying to think of is how we could stop the motor vehicle. but with this volume of traffic, it s too dangerous for the officer to cut