A Wisconsin Congressman is being praised as a hero for saving an 11-year-old’s life after getting injured in a car crash, according to PEOPLE. A minivan crashed into a semi truck on Saturday, August 16, in Iowa, as Congressman Derrick Van Orden was driving with his family.

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They were heading to a memorial for his daughter, who had died two years prior. While on I-35 in Oscelola, Van Orden heard a minivan crash into a semi-truck that was parked on the side of the interstate.

“I heard a massive, massive boom,” he said to KCCI. The Congressman, and former Navy SEAL, was not too far ahead of the crash, so he stopped and turned around.

A 41-year-old woman was driving the minivan alongside an 11-year-old boy.

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