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EDMONTON – Camrose police are crediting a quick thinking city employee for jumping into action and helping a 14-year-old boy who was pinned underneath a vehicle on Thursday morning.

Police say two boys were using a crosswalk at the intersection of 48 Avenue and 49 Street on their bicycles when one of them was hit by a car.

Rudy Sund heard the commotion and came to see what had happened.

“It was a two door black Chrysler car around the corner, and here was feet sticking out from a young boy, and then there was I guess an older gentlemen from the back end underneath it, it had already been jacked up,” he recalls.

“To see him under the car was a startling sight.”

Officers say an 81-year-old man stopped his car at the stop sign and then started to turn right onto 48 Avenue. He didn’t see the boys and hit one of them.

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According to police, the boy and his bike were knocked over and the back part of the car pinned the boy.

A city employee saw the situation unfold and quickly grabbed a large hydraulic jack from his truck and lifted the car up to take the pressure off the 14-year-old.

Emergency crews arrived, and the boy was taken to St. Mary’s hospital where he is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.

“It seems very fortunate the boy wasn’t more seriously injured because he was lying right underneath the bottom of the vehicle,” says Sund.

“It made a huge difference,” says Cst. John Tomaszewski with the Camrose Police. “The quick response was literally within seconds, minutes at the maximum. The quick response, it definitely increased the youth’s chances of sustaining less injuries.”

“He’s a quick reactor,” says Tomaszewski of the city worker. “He’s a Good Samaritan… It was good that he was there and able to act as he did.”

Police continue to investigate. There is no word yet on whether charges will be laid.

The Good Samaritan does not want to be identified. Camrose communications describe him as a private guy.

With files from Laurel Clark, Global News