Hero father, 38, loses half of his LEG while saving daughter, 2, from out-of-control driver in crime-ridden LA

By RACHEL BOWMAN, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 17:00, 1 July 2026 | Updated: 17:25, 1 July 2026 A heroic father lost part of his leg while saving his young daughter from a speeding truck barreling down a busy Los Angeles street. Jordan Stannard, 38, was putting his two-year-old daughter Sadie into the car after shopping at the Erewhon grocery store on Venice Boulevard when the truck came rushing down the street last month. His wife and their six-week-old daughter were on the other side of the family car when they heard the truck strike another vehicle. Stannard threw Sadie into the vehicle and took the full impact of the truck, which mangled his foot. 'I literally just threw her into the car. I remember the truck fully hitting my body and hitting me and twisting me around,' Stannard told KABC. 'It looked like I stepped on a bomb. It looked like I had stepped on a grenade or a bomb, and it looked like my foot was pretty much blown off.' Doctors had to amputate his left leg below the knee, and the father who has previously run marathons and completed Ironman challenges has been recovering in the hospital since. 'If you told me, "You just have to trade your foot to be with your daughters for the rest of your life," that's a trade that I would make all day long,' Stannard said.  Jordan Stannard, 38, lost part of his leg after saving his two-year-old daughter Sadie from a speeding truck on a busy Los Angeles street The hero father threw his daughter into the vehicle and took the full impact of the truck, which mangled his foot The father is grateful that his daughter was not hurt, and he said his wife has been his rock throughout his recovery. 'That is the thing that I am most thankful for. As I get further away from the accident, I'm just more and more thankful for that, because I can't even begin the thought of what could have happened to her,' Stannard said.  'I have the best wife in the world, and she has just really shown up for me, and she is the engine that drives our family. She is the reason why I'm able to have so much strength.' Stannard expects to be released from the hospital on Saturday, and said he hopes to run the LA marathon next year after getting a prosthetic foot.  'There's no room to be like, "Boo hoo." There's no room to be angry, you know?' he said. 'I want to be the best dad for my daughters, and I can't let this affect the kind of dad I want to be.' A GoFundMe has been launched to help support the family as they are forced to relocate from their three-story condominium into a single-story home while Stannard recovers. 'In an act that undoubtedly saved his daughter's life, he was able to move Sadie out of harm's way before the impact. Although he reacted quickly, he was unable to avoid being hit himself,' the fundraiser said. Stannard expects to be released from the hospital on Saturday, and said he hopes to run the LA marathon next year after getting a prosthetic foot The family has been forced to relocate from their three-story condominium into a single-story home while Stannard recovers 'He will require a prosthetic limb and will have a long road of recovery and rehabilitation ahead of him.  'This news is heartbreaking. We know Jordan's strength and determination will carry him through, but the challenges facing him and his family are immense.'  It is unclear if the driver who struck Stannard has been charged. The Daily Mail contacted the Los Angeles Police Department for more information.  The comments below have not been moderated. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.