The policeman pictured cradling a two-year-old girl after her
father was killed in a car crash has spoken about the heartbreaking scene.
Officer Nick Struck
sang ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ to distract her as emergency
services battled to save her family in Brighton, Colorado US.
Her mother and one sibling
were airlifted to hospital while road ambulances took two other siblings to
A&E.
Nobody in the car was
wearing a seat belt, police confirmed.
Mr Struck, who has a
two-year-old daughter himself, was the third officer on the scene and was
handed the toddler as soon as he arrived.
He held the youngster away
from the wreckage as he held her in his arms.
He told 9News: ‘When you
hear that there’s children involved, I’ll tell you what, everyone that responds
to that scene, you get that pit in your stomach.
‘The first thing we do
when we get on scene is we just try to, if we can comfort anybody, of course we’re
going to go to the kids.
‘So then the role we do
is, to keep them safe, what would I want that dad to do if it was my daughter.’
He continued: ‘I know for
my daughter, it’s just the attention that someone is there, listening. It’s the
same for adults, but kids, they take it on a whole other level.
‘They’ll gravitate to you,
and I remember when I was holding her, she was grabbing the back of my arm,
which is something my daughter does. Just stroking to the music, “twinkle,
twinkle”.’
The incredible picture was
taken by Jessica Matrious last Thursday. It quickly went viral.
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