A series of new videos show the dramatic scenes when a medical helicopter crashed on a freeway in Sacramento, California.
One of the videos shows bystanders rushing to help a trapped crew member, who was later identified as Suzie Smith.
"Bystanders heroically lifted a helicopter off a trapped crew member after a crash on Highway 50 in Sacramento on Monday night. Family identified the crew member trapped underneath as Suzie Smith, who was one of three victims in the crash," ABC 10 wrote on X, sharing video of the crash, which showed the bystanders joining together in a line to try to lift the tail of the helicopter.
Priscilla Cochran-Navarra was one of a dozen bystanders who rushed to help when the REACH helicopter crashed, according to ABC 7.
"I was, I think, the first one to approach the helicopter and at that point I didn't know there were three victims, cause I could only see three bodies and I didn't know if they were deceased or not at that point," she explained. "I'm yelling are you alive? Are you alive? And then one of the passengers, one who subsequently ended up being pinned, moved her leg a little bit, so I could see that she was alive. So I just screamed like she's alive, she's alive."
KRCA News obtained a separate dashcam video that showed the helicopter crashing on the busy freeway on October 7.
Smith "was 1 of 3 people on a helicopter when it crashed onto Hwy 50 in Sacramento. Bystanders rushed to lift the helicopter and pul her from the wreckage. Her family asks 'if you are a believer,'" wrote ABC 10.
The crash on Sacramento's Highway 50 injured the pilot, nurse, and paramedic on board, according to CBS News, which reported that all three were all in critical condition on October 8.
The helicopter had just left a medical center when it crashed on the busy freeway. No motorists were injured, CBS News reported.
"She is tough as nails and goes day in and day out on these flights and shows up to these horrific accidents and is the first responder," said a friend of Smith's, Joseph Anfuso, to CBS News. The other two victims were not yet publicly identified.
According to CBS News, Smith is "a medical missionary, regularly making trips to Nicaragua to serve the poorest part of the Latin American country."