Bodycam: S.C. Deputy Pulls Woman From Burning, Overturned Vehicle

A South Carolina police officer saved a woman trapped inside burning overturned vehicle following a crash last month.

The rescue happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. May 23 when Chester County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Threatt responded to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 77, the department stated in a social media post, which included body camera footage. Once Threatt reached the scene, he saw the overturned vehicle partially on fire and quickly worked to free the trapped driver.

In the body camera footage, Threatt is seen grabbing a piece of debris to clear away broken glass from the driver's side window. Threatt and a responding firefighter then pulled the woman out and dragged her to safety.

"Later, we learned the driver was an out-of-state resident traveling through Chester to Charlotte to celebrate a massive milestone, finishing her radiation treatments for breast cancer," the department stated.

Not only did Threatt save the woman, Carletta Bush, from the wreckage, but he and his wife visited her in the hospital, WBTV-TV reports. Threatt had also returned to the crash site and recovered Bush's Bible from the scene.

“He had to be my guardian angel because nobody, nobody came to save me,” said Bush said.