Another passenger was with the one on the ground. Kingery saw three passengers who appeared OK and a fourth laying face down, who Kingery thinks was ejected from the vehicle. Kingery arrived shortly after Harris did. He guessed the cabin was about 80% full of water. Harris tried to go to the front of the van but realized, with the depth of the water, mud and additional weight he carried, he could drown. Harris treaded through and even fell in the water as he moved around the van.īody cam video shows Harris and Hicks moving through roughly waist-high water as the van's horn continued to blare. Navy but was about to use them for the first time in a real-life situation. Harris had learned water rescue techniques in the U.S. The passengers who had escaped the van told Harris one person was still inside. Kingery, a minute behind him, heard the call change. Harris called off his traffic stop and alerted that he needed fire and EMS for a submerged vehicle. Hicks was already running down to the lake. He then looked down to the lake just off the highway and saw the overturned van. Then, his eyes were drawn to Hicks and his daughter, who were getting out of their truck. Harris followed the vehicle with the traffic infraction as it took the I-135 south to I-235 south ramp. He stopped, reversed and agreed with his daughter that she should call 911. Meanwhile, Josh Hicks, a Nebraska man who works HVAC and was in town with his 17-year-old daughter for a softball tournament, saw the accident in his rearview mirror.

He was headed back to the station when he saw a traffic infraction and decided to pull the driver over.ĭeputy Nathan Kingery was headed the other direction on I-135, saw Harris and prepared to turn around to help with the stop. Harris had agreed to work past his shift. '100 percent without a shadow of a doubt this was completely divine and it was all for God's glory,' he said. What happened next is the miracle, says Deputy Clinton Harris. The fifth was trapped underwater inside the van. Two Sedgwick County deputies and a bystander who pulled an unconscious man from a van overturned in a lake say what happened was a miracle.įive Wichita men were injured when their 2010 Ford van left the I-235 south ramp from I-135 south and landed in a lake Tuesday evening.Īll but one of the men were ejected or able to get themselves out.

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