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Watch Dallas police, firefighters and civilians lift a car to rescue a trapped motorcyclist

More often than not, when the Dallas Police Department posts a video its because detectives are looking for bad guys --

ATM thieves

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. But every now and then the DPD will release something a bit more feel-good, say -- like

that body-cam video of the February's water rescue

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The video you'll find below is definitely from the feel-good-news file.

It was shot around 10 p.m. on July 9 at

Greenville Avenue and Bryan Parkway

, a couple of blocks from t

he now-shuttered Ships Lounge

. According to a 911 call, a car and motorcycle collided at the intersection, and the motorcyclist became trapped beneath the vehicle.

As you can see in the video, witnesses converged on the scene pretty quickly; so too police officers, who arrived within 30 seconds, according to the department. Initially, they tried to free the woman under the car using a jack. That didn't work.

"The female motorcyclist was gasping for air as the vehicle was crushing her," says the DPD. "Realizing the dire situation at hand, Dallas police officers, Dallas Fire-Rescue and citizens changed course and relied on unified physical human strength. Instead of waiting for additional equipment to arrive, the decision was made to lift the vehicle by hand. Dash-cam video captured the incident as this team came together to do the unthinkable. They lifted the vehicle, pulled the victim out ... and rushed her to the hospital. Remarkably, she sustained no major injuries from the crash."

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Officer Laura Beddow pulled out the woman, and says she only knew the cyclist was alive because she could feel a pulse in her leg. “She was being crushed by the undercarriage,” Beddow says.

[

Update:

Since this was posted I've heard from a firefighter who says he was among those who worked the accident, and he says the woman on the motorcycle actually suffered serious injuries. Her attorney has corroborated this in

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a statement sent to the media today

: "She cannot provide an interview as her injuries are serious and exhausting." But, the attorney adds, "In over 25 years handling thousands of violent collision cases, this was the finest Police and Fireman work I have ever seen."

I asked Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans if he could clarify. His response:

"Records indicate that Engine and Rescue 8 were the responding units, but whoever was involved in lifting the car must have been pretty humble about it," he says via email. "I called the station earlier to find out if any talk about such an incident had circulated around the station around that time, and no one could recall hearing of such a thing. While I’m sure each responder has a different reason for which they could emotionally link themselves to those circumstances, it just goes to show how something like this comes as second nature. Lift a car off a woman and take her to the hospital, apply the lessons learned to better react the next time you see something like it then wait on the next call."]

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The first half of the brief video set up the scene; the second half is just all

kinds

of impressive. As Evans says, "That is some amazing footage!"