A U.S. high school student jumped into action and somehow found superhuman strength to save his neighbor’s life.

Zac Clark, 16, was doing yard work with his mother, Lora Clark, last Saturday at their home in Butler, Ohio, when they suddenly heard their neighbor’s wife calling for help. They saw her husband pinned beneath their car.

“Without even hesitation, he darted, like sprinted over to the house,” Lora said.

“I guess the jack broke or slipped and the car fell on top of him from the waist up,” the Clear Fork Colts High School football player said. “Only thing I could see was his legs and he was struggling.”

The 39-year-old father asked not to be identified. He said he usually uses braces, but did not that day and the bumper was crushing his chest with another part of the car pushing down on his head.

Whether it was adrenaline or something else, Zac positioned his forearms underneath the 3,000-pound (1,361-kilogram) car and lifted it off the man, saving his life.

“He had a couple of cracked ribs and his face was messed up pretty bad, but the doctors told him if I wasn’t there then he’d be dead,” Zac said. “I just thank God for giving me the strength to do that.”

Colts’ head football coach Dave Carroll said he was amazed when Zac called him, but not surprised because the teen is always helping others and wants to become a firefighter when he graduates.

“Why it doesn’t surprise me that he did this, he has just a huge heart,” Carroll said. (SD-Agencies)