"Look For the Helpers

Strangers helped unpin a woman before first responders could get to the scene of her accident. They helped save the woman's life

My sister was in a car accident on I-10 on Sunday and had to airlifted from the scene. “Look for the Helpers” - Mister Rogers —— thank you to the strangers who stopped to help unpinned her before the responders could arrive. Their efforts were the difference between life and death. We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the regular guys, the responders, the airlift crew and the medical staff. We don’t know their names or faces but they stay in our hearts and prayers.

How does anyone survive this? Miraculous!

After the jaws of life we’re used to extract her - she was airlifted to the closest level one trauma center. She sustain head & neck injuries, a couple of broken bones, and broke her front teeth. None of her injuries were life threatening, or didn’t become so because of all of the people who helped her. It will be a long road but she’s expected to make a full recovery. We are overwhelmed with gratitude!

FP Edit: WOW - thank you so much!

So to answer some questions.

1) We don’t know exactly what happened and she’ll never remember. We know she loss control, crossed the median and hit a dually truck pulling an empty flatbed. There were rolls and flips somewhere in there too. The driver of the truck was unharmed.

Here is a link to the news story http://m.wlox.com/wlox/db/330810/content/ZtJcOPHv

2) the lady who took the pic would not have been able to help right then. She did contact us to share what she witnessed and send us the pics. There was actually a level of comfort in seeing all the help and hearing the details that were left out of the report so we’re not mad.

3) There is a GoFundMe account to help to get her back on her feet when she recovers, for anyone interested. (removed the link....the generosity was overwhelming and we are so grateful but there is no longer a need for it)

2 WEEKS LATER UPDATE:

So it's be just over 2 weeks since this accident. My sister is doing remarkably well. She was discharged from the amazing hospital she was airlifted to and moved to an inpatient rehab facility for some intense physical therapy. Hopefully she will be able to go home in a week or so. She's expected to make a full recovery.

We were able to locate the main 'helper' - the guy who was leading the effort. He's been having crazy dreams and has been haunted not knowing is she survived or not. He was so relieved to get the call and find out that she'll be fine and we were so glad to make the call to express how truly grateful we are for his efforts.

Couple more details - he was able to clarify a couple of things for us. It was the headrest that had her pinned in a way that was cutting off her air supply. Once they were able to safely break the window they cut the headrest away. They did not risk moving her, they let the first responders do their work to get her out safely. Her eyes were open and she was blue so they knew something needed to be done and used their best judgement to save her.

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