Officers and bystanders rescue 6-year-old boy pinned under car

Not long ago, a Utah motorcyclist was saved when bystanders lifted the burning car he was trapped under.

Now, another story has emerged where good Samaritans freed an accident victim from beneath a vehicle.

Last Thursday morning, 6-year-old Dominic Deroberts tripped getting out of his grandfather's car and was run over in the carpool lane of is Florida elementary school, trapping him under the car's engine.

"His leg was wedged in the engine compartment," Coleen Deroberts, Dominic's aunt, told CBS, adding that Bill Deroberts, the boy's grandfather, thought he was dead. "There was no leverage for him to bend the leg in order to get it out."

"He was dragged a little bit, and [his] ear was almost completely severed."

A half dozen police officers and civilians quickly responded to the accident, lifting the 3,000-pound vehicle off the little boy.

"He was visibly shaken," Ernest Bucinskas, one of the men who came to Dominic's rescue, told NYDailyNews. "I told him, 'Just give us a minute, we're going to get you out of here.'"

Dominic suffered a punctured lung and needed an ear reattachment at Delray Medical Center, but he's expected to make a full recovery.

The driver of the Pontiac is not facing charges as "she did not see Deroberts in her line of sight," police said.

"We thank these officers," Coleen told CBS. "If they weren't strong enough, the outcome would have been very different."