CHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (TNND) — A Chester County deputy rescued a woman from a burning vehicle following a crash on Interstate 77 on May 23.
According to the Chester County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Daniel Threatt was the first responder to the single-vehicle accident. The vehicle was overturned and partially engulfed in flames, with the driver trapped inside.
Threatt acted quickly, risking his own safety to pull the driver from the vehicle. “He immediately jumped into action,” the sheriff's office reported on Facebook. Other first responders arrived shortly after to extinguish the fire and provide medical aid.
The driver, identified as Carletta Bush, was en route to Charlotte to mark the end of her radiation treatments for breast cancer. Body camera footage captured Threatt's urgent rescue efforts, which included breaking a window to reach her.
“I was thinking, well, this car could blow up at any moment,” Threatt recalled. Bush described Threatt as her “guardian angel,” stating, “Nobody came to save me.”
Deputy Threatt later visited Bush in the hospital and reflected on the incident. “In the moment, people will call it adrenaline. After seven years in law enforcement, this was probably the coolest thing I've done in my career,” he said.
The investigation into the accident is ongoing. Emergency services responded to transport Bush for medical treatment; her current condition has not been disclosed.