Woman lifts 20 times body weight

[emad]

A young woman summoned up the strength to lift a car more than 20 times her body weight to free a trapped friend, despite being injured herself.

Kyla Smith, from Sunderland, was driving her MG ZR hatchback near Washington when it left the road and hit a tree.

Passenger Jonathon Connor's leg was stuck under the car as it rolled over.

So the 23-year-old lifted the car to allow him to escape, unaware that she had injured her back in the crash.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/4746665.stm

[LynzM]

1. Adrenaline is amazing stuff...

Wow. Glad they are ok!

[Lerkfish]

6. sorry! we posted identical posts at the same time!

[LynzM]

8. LOL

Great minds think alike, eh? :)

[Shell Beau]

2. I know a girl who did the same thing to free her trapped

mother. Adrenaline! I am sure glad we have it. The closest I ever came to doing anything like that was to lift a four-wheeler that had trapped a friend after we flipped it. I know that is nowhere near the same, but I didn't have any trouble doing it. It was as light as a feather at the time!

[emad]

3. and I read a similar one to this recently only the woman was eight

months pregnant as well.....

[Shell Beau]

4. Wow! Amazing!

[Lerkfish]

5. adrenalin is an amazing thing.

[Zuni]

7. is she part ant or something? damn

:o

[MercutioATC]

9. That's not ENTIRELY accurate.

The curb weight of an MG ZR is about 2400 pounds. Assuming this woman weighs 120 pounds, that's 20 times her weight.

However, she didn't lift the entire car off of the ground, just one side. That's still about 800-1000 pounds, which is a pretty amazing feat (that's assuming she was actually lifting, not rolling the car over and it happened on level terrain).

So she REALLY didn't lift 20 times her body weight...

[neweurope]

10. So? I lift about a 20th of my body weight these days...

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