NYPD Officers Revive Crashed Driver With 20 Minutes of CPR

New York, United States – NYPD officers performed CPR for more than 20 minutes on a man who went into cardiac arrest and crashed his car in Queens, restoring his pulse and saving his life, the department said.

Body camera footage released by the NYPD on Tuesday, November 10, shows the incident at about 3:17 pm on October 26 in College Point. Off-duty officers rushed to help the man after the crash, and additional NYPD units soon arrived and took over CPR.

Officers are seen kneeling over the man on the ground and attaching defibrillator pads, then lifting him into an ambulance, where they keep working on him.

"A second chance at life thanks to our fast-acting NYPD officers," the department wrote when it shared the video.