Shocking footage shows the moment a quick-thinking Texas police officer saved a woman who was choking on a piece of gum on the side of a busy highway last month.
Mansfield police Chad Stevens performed the Heimlich maneuver on the woman after pulling up next to her white Honda SUV on Jan. 13, according to a video released Thursday.
When Stevens got out of his car, the woman was gasping for air and holding her neck, the footage shows.
“Are you choking?” police quickly asked the woman who could not answer, bodycam video showed. “Turn around, turn around.”
He then hugged his stomach and squeezed several times before the gum came off and he could breathe again, dashcam footage showed.
Video shows officer Chad Stevens performing the Heimlich maneuver on the woman after pulling up next to her white Honda SUV. Mansfield Police Department/Facebook Once the officer hugged her stomach and squeezed several times — the gum was dislodged. Mansfield Police Department/Facebook
Stevens first noticed the driver on Highway 20 in north Texas near Dallas because he was in the left lane and his hazard lights were flashing, Mansfield police said.
The driver, identified by police only as Samantha, told police the gum got stuck in her throat after another driver pulled into her lane and cut her off, causing her to gasp.
“Someone swerved in front of me and I got scared,” he said, according to body camera footage.
One driver said a piece of gum got stuck in his throat after another driver pulled into his lane and cut him off – causing him to gasp, police said. Mansfield Police Department/Facebook
In the next few minutes, he frantically looked for someone on the road to help him.
“Oh my gosh, I’m looking for anyone,” Samantha told Stevens, thanking her over and over again.
The police department praised Stevens for his “quick thinking and life-saving actions.”
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