Dashcam Video Shows Deputy Saving a Boy Trapped Under ATV

A 10-year-old boy was lying face down in the dirt. The top bar of a flipped ATV was pressing the back of his neck. Hundreds of pounds of metal were pressing the life out of him. He was turning blue. Now, that 10-year-old boy is at home with a few bruises and scratches. The moments between then and now were captured by dash cam video. Sgt. Rey Rodriguez was patrolling along I-16 when a call came through the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office reporting a traffic accident on private property. When Rodriguez pulled up, he saw an ATV tipped on its side. Video captures the moment he comes around the side and realizes a boy is trapped beneath. "I need help here now," he called into dispatch as he maneuvered his patrol car closer to the ATV. He grabbed a tow rope, attached it to the ATV, and pulled it free. Rodriguex rushed out of the patrol car to check on the boy. Moments later, an ambulance arrived. The boy was air-lifted to a hospital in Savannah. "I think he either saved his life, or saved him from life-long injuries," Chief Deputy Jarad Akins said.