“Move this car”: Fla. Deputy remains calm after the accident and puts his hand under the steering wheel of the car

From Mark price

source The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)

A Florida sheriff’s deputy kept his cool under bizarre circumstances when a car landed on his four fingers in a traffic accident, body camera video shows.

It happened around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, near Fort Pierce North, and video shows the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office deputy didn’t scream in pain or call for help.

Instead, he made a very reasonable request: “Hey, move this car forward.”

The unidentified deputy suffered cuts to his fingers and knuckles, the video shows.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, he was one of three law enforcement officers (two men and one woman) injured when a suspected drunk driver collided with a traffic stop in progress.

That driver, 41-year-old Perry Peables, was traveling north on US 1 when his Toyota Sequoia struck the rear of a St. Lucie County patrol car, setting off a chain reaction that involved another county patrol car and a police vehicle from Fort Pierce were involved, state troopers say.

The impact was strong enough to send one of the SUVs down an embankment, video shows.

All three injured police officers, ages 26, 29 and 32, were standing outside their vehicles at the time of the crash, officials say. A deputy and a police officer were taken to a hospital “with serious but non-life-threatening injuries,” St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson said in a Facebook post.

The suspect, who lives in Vero Beach, was arrested for driving under the influence, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

According to investigators, the vehicle involved in the initial traffic stop was not struck.

Fort Pierce North is approximately 120 miles southeast of Orlando.

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