A Michigan teenager has put on a display of superhuman strength, lifting a car weighing more than 900kg that had fallen on top of his grandfather.
Austin Smith, 15 and his grandfather, Ernest "Papa Ernie" Monhollen, 74, were trying to fix the brakes on a 1991 Buick that was propped up on cinder blocks in the garage of their Township home when the accident occurred, news website Click on Detroit reports.
Austin said he was sitting inside the vehicle "pumping the brakes" when he felt the car rock slightly.
The teenager got out of the car, which collapsed moments later with his grandfather underneath.
"I was just so scared, I didn’t know what to do," Austin was quoted as saying.
"All I could think of was just getting the car off him."
In an extraordinary move, Austin then somehow managed to lift the front end of the 900kg-plus vehicle high enough for his grandfather to crawl out from underneath.
The teen said he had no idea how he lifted the car but believed it could have been the adrenalin.
"Thank God he was here," Mr Monhollen said.
"If it had just been me and his grandmother it would’ve been over."
Mr Monhollen suffered a serious cut to his face, fractured ribs and a fractured eye socket.
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