Calgary Officer Saves Life of Choking Child After Pulling Over Parents’ Vehicle for Speeding
Published on August 9, 2024
A routine traffic stop became a life-saving experience for a 17-month-old Calgary girl last weekend when a quick-thinking police officer saved the toddler from choking. Const. Adrian Chong pulled over a speeding vehicle on the evening of Aug. 4 and, upon approaching the vehicle, he found an “extremely distraught family with an unresponsive child, named Camila, in the back seat,” the Calgary Police Service said in a social media post. The child’s father had been taking his daughter to hospital because, although she was conscious, she was exhibiting “several signs of medical distress.” Rather than writing a ticket, Chong put his emergency training to work on the spot, the Aug. 8 post said....