A quick-thinking police officer has been praised for rescuing a young child who ran on to a busy main road.
Sergeant Anthony Mannino pulled his squad car to one side and used it to shield the little boy from traffic as he ran after him.
In dashcam footage, which will serve as any parent’s worst nightmare, the little boy is seen at the top of a slip road and then running in the direction of traffic, on Route 59 outside Chicago.
Naperville Police Department said the boy “escaped his mother’s watchful eye” and ran off when the incident happened in May.
Now Mannino has been presented with the department’s Life Saving Award for his heroics.