A 22-year-old Virginia woman summoned some superhero strength to lift a BMW off her father, who became pinned under the car while trying to fix a blown tire on it.

Lauren Kornacki, a recent graduate of the University of Mary Washington, said she went outside to ask to borrow the car on Saturday.

"I didn't hear my dad, so I went back inside and asked my mom where he was," Kornacki said.

When she went outside to look again for her father, Alec Kornacki, 52, she found him stuck under the BMW.

"I guess the way he was moving the car with his wrench, the jack slipped and it fell on top of him," Kornacki said. "He was unconscious and his arm was caught over his chest."

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Alec Kornacki, left, was rescued by his... View Full Size

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Alec Kornacki, left, was rescued by his 22-year-old daughter Lauren, right, who lifted his BMW off of him and administered CPR after he became trapped under the car while doing repair work on July 29, 2012 in Glen Allen, Va.

Kornacki, who played basketball for three years and works as a pool manager, tried to rescue her father. She may have been running on pure adrenaline.

"I just literally lifted up the car. It was like a table with a short leg. It kind of balanced it back out and shifted enough to free my dad," Kornacki said, adding that she didn't consider the feat to be "Hulk-like."

Once Alec Kornacki was freed from beneath the car, Lauren began doing chest compressions.

"I didn't even get through a full set before he started breathing again," she said.

The elder Kornacki was taken to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, where is being treated for five fractured ribs, a fractured sternum and vertebrae. He has also lost some feeling in his right arm, but is expected to regain full use in a couple of months, Lauren said.

Lauren, who said she is her father's "mini-me," insisted she doesn't consider herself a hero.

"My dad means everything to me," she said. "I'm having a hard time with this attention."

Well, such things DO happen in real-life. Go figure.

cool. she looks strong but still that's quite an endeavor

Nope she don't look fragile. But I doubt she could do it on a bet.

I suspect (and have for 35 years since I hear about this on the tv show the hulk) that it has more to do with leverage and physics than some untapped physical strength.

the car fall but part of it lands on a point.,,,that point serves as a fulcrum. So a relatively low amount of force would be needed to move the car just enough.

Not that it is not an amazing feat... but it was also a lot of luck too.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I suspect (and have for 35 years since I hear about this on the tv show the hulk) that it has more to do with leverage and physics than some untapped physical strength.

the car fall but part of it lands on a point.,,,that point serves as a fulcrum. So a relatively low amount of force would be needed to move the car just enough.

Not that it is not an amazing feat... but it was also a lot of luck too.

this, but still a cool story.

nursev said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I suspect (and have for 35 years since I hear about this on the tv show the hulk) that it has more to do with leverage and physics than some untapped physical strength.

the car fall but part of it lands on a point.,,,that point serves as a fulcrum. So a relatively low amount of force would be needed to move the car just enough.

Not that it is not an amazing feat... but it was also a lot of luck too.

this, but still a cool story.

oh no doubt! amazing that she even tried! That is the real super human thing. She tried lift a car, that makes her a super hero!

I am glad daughter was there for her dad when he needed help.

I think there's something to the whole "fight or flight" thing. I don't think it's some supernatural thing, but in those rare tough spots things happen.

I was just reading how an electic shock could send someone flying across the room. I always thought it was some hollywood thing since I've never witness it myself. But it's not the electric shock that does it but the extreme contraction of the muscle that send the body flying.