YouTubeDramatic dashcam video has emerged showing the moment a police officer saves a child from a moving car.
The video was filmed on the dashcam of driver Tatianna Dushuk in the city of Viciebsk in Belarus – about 175 miles northeast of Minsk, near the Russian border, reports Meduza.
The footage clearly shows the police officer rescue a child from oncoming traffic, pulling the boy out of harm’s way and allowing himself to be hit by the car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAy6PxUpgxM
The officer, Sergei Batalko, says the driver failed to stop for pedestrians and also drove in the lane for trolley cars.
He told local news reporters:
The driver didn’t see the boy. Well, and then I turned up, I scooped him up, and covered him with my body.
YouTubeIt was later uploaded to the social media channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who released a statement saying the officer escaped with only minor bruises on his shins as a result of the incident, but that the child was unharmed.
What a hero.
