Bystanders and police lift car off six-year-old boy pinned underneath

A group of bystanders raced to the rescue of a six-year-old boy who was pinned beneath a car on Thursday morning in Florida. Police officers and civilians lifted the 3,000 pound vehicle off the child, Dominic Deroberts, who was struck when he tripped after getting out of his grandfather's car in the carpool lane at his Boca Raton elementary school - right into the path of another vehicle.



Deroberts' misstep trapped him underneath the engine of the Pontiac. "He thought he was dead," said Coleen Deroberts, the boy's aunt said. "His leg was wedged in the engine compartment," she said. "There was no leverage for him to bend the leg in order to get it out.

"He was dragged a little bit, and [his] ear was almost completely severed." Deroberts suffered a punctured lung and his ear had to be reattached at Delray Medical Center.


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"He was visibly shaken," said Ernest Bucinskas, one of the half dozen men who rushed to the boy's rescue. "I told him, 'Just give us a minute, we're going to get you out of here.'" The driver of the Pontiac will not face charges because she did not see Deroberts in her line of sight," police have said.