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OCOEE, Fla. – An Ocoee police sergeant is being credited with rescuing a woman trapped inside an overturned vehicle after spotting the crash before it had even been reported to dispatch.<\/p>\n
Body camera video released by the Ocoee Police Department shows Sgt. Juan Mu\u00f1oz breaking a window and helping the woman escape from the vehicle, which had rolled onto its roof.<\/p>\n
\u2018Could tell she was very distraught\u2019 <\/p>\n
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The video shows Mu\u00f1oz calmly talking to the woman through the rescue as she remained trapped inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
“Try and get out of your seatbelt and then come towards me, okay?” Munoz told her. “You good?”<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1oz said remaining calm was critical to preventing the woman from becoming more frightened during the rescue.<\/p>\n
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n “You could tell she was very distraught\u2026 she still had her seatbelt on, and she didn\u2019t want to undo the seatbelt,” Mu\u00f1oz said. “If you\u2019re panicked, or you\u2019re screaming, they\u2019re going to scream. They\u2019re going to get more panicked.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The crash had not yet been called in when Mu\u00f1oz noticed the vehicle overturned while patrolling in Ocoee. He said his instinct was to act immediately.<\/p>\n SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n “My first reaction is just, I need to get her out of the car,” Munoz said. “Basically, it was quick.”<\/p>\n After helping the woman through the broken window, Mu\u00f1oz guided her away from the wreckage and potential hazards.<\/p>\n The woman was evaluated by the Ocoee Fire Department before being transported to a nearby hospital. Her condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Ocoee Police Department and Sgt. Juan Mu\u00f1oz.<\/p>\n Orange County News<\/a>Ocoee<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCOEE, Fla. – An Ocoee police sergeant is being credited with rescuing a woman trapped inside an overturned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,115,7820,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-311348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-ocoee","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}