A viral photo that’s making the rounds on social media websites shows a Colorado police officer trying to distract a little girl whose parents were involved in an accident.
Officer Nick Struck was one of the first to respond to the crash off I-76 near Brighton, Colo., according to USA Today.
“When you hear that there’s children involved, I’ll tell you what, everyone that responds to that scene, you get that pit in your stomach,” he said.
“The first thing we do when we get on scene is we just try to, if we can comfort anybody, of course we’re going to go to the kids.”
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The crash left one man—the girl’s father—dead, and four children and one woman injured.
“So then the role we do is, to keep them safe, what would I want that dad to do if it was my daughter,” Struck added.
Struck, who has a 2-year-old daughter, sang “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to the child.
“I know for my daughter, it’s just the attention that someone is there, listening. It’s the same for adults, but kids, they take it on a whole other level,” he said. “They’ll gravitate to you, and I remember when I was holding her, she was grabbing the back of my arm, which is something my daughter does. Just stroking to the music, ‘Twinkle, twinkle.'”
According to Mirror, all six passengers were thrown from the vehicle, and none were “properly restrained” by seat belts.
“I’m not a medical person, but I know how to give a hug to somebody, and you better believe every one of those officers on scene would do the same thing,” he said.