Body camera video has captured the moment a baby girl was pulled alive from under a car which had been driven into a shop by a suspected drink driver
A chaotic scene, recorded on an officer's body camera, followed, showing the smashed car in the middle of the barbers, surrounded by broken glass and people frantically trying to help the pair.
Police officers Rocco Fusco and Paul Samoyedny, who were having breakfast next door when they heard the crash, rushed to the barbers to investigate.They found the mother sitting on a bed of glass by the mangled bonnet, covered in motor oil, with blood on her arm. The child, though, was not immediately fully visible.
"We got a baby under the vehicle!" officer Samoyedny said over his radio, according to the body camera video.Image:Officer Fusco and the passers-by then lifted the car, allowing Samoyedny to grab the child, yelling"I got her, I got the baby, I got the baby... hold on, hold on... we got you, yes, yes", as the girl, in a Mickey Mouse printed dress, is pulled clear.
The driver, named by police as David Poncurak, a 43-year-old man from Yonkers, was arrested for driving while intoxicated, police said, and also faces a second charge of second degree vehicular assault.Police said they found an alcoholic drink in the car, while a woman, who was also in the vehicle, was uninjured.
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