Two officers helped to save the life of a baby girl who was pinned under a car in a rollover crash Thursday on Interstate 30, Fort Worth police said in a social media post and video.
Officers were called to the major accident on I-30 between Eastchase Parkway and Cooks Lane about 9:30 a.m. According to the 911 call details, a mother and her 1-year-old daughter had been thrown from the vehicle, police said.
The arriving officers immediately started looking for the child. Body-camera footage shows the vehicle overturned in the grassy area along I-30.
“Under here. We need to move the car,” someone can be heard saying.
Witnesses who’d seen the crash helped the officers push the car up enough to free the infant. The little girl was unconscious, and Sgt. Nichols started performing CPR, according to police.
A Fort Worth police officer gave CPR to a 1-year-old girl after the child and her mother were ejected from a car that crashed on Interstate 30 on Thursday, Oct 23, 2025. The mother and baby are expected to make a full recovery.
“She has a pulse. Is she breathing, though?” one of the officers asks.
The officers continue to work with the child, and a short time later she makes some faint noises and starts to cry. The infant was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, and is doing well, according to police. Both she and her mother are expected to fully recover.
“We are beyond proud of the life saving actions performed by Sgt. Nichols and Officer Bounds for their bravery and quick response to this terrible scene,” officials said in the post. “We are also grateful to the Fort Worth citizens who saw someone in danger and, without hesitation, assisted our officers.
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