It was the second
time in eight days that a driver left Shoreline Drive in Long Beach, CA and
slammed into an embankment. At the same
time, a 16-year-old was watching an episode of “Parks and Recreation” on
Netflix at his nearby home.
Andrew said the
sound of he heard was all too familiar.
Without thinking, her grabbed his folding pocket knife and ran out the
door. In route, he asked a neighbor to
call 9-1-1. Nearby, in a grassy
embankment, he found an overturned Scion that had careened through a guardrail,
splintering a tree and skidding down the slope.
The car’s driver, a woman in her 20s, was still inside. Andrew told her to back away from the window
before he used the butt of the pocket knife to smash it and help the woman
crawl out. He dragged
the woman 30 feet from the accident, before running to grab a first-aid kit. The woman was taken to the hospital and
treated for minor injuries. Andrew suffered
minor cuts on his arm and hand while helping to extricate the woman.
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| Andrew's cuts and scrapes after freeing trapped driver |
How did this
young man know what to do? Andrew says he often watches emergency
response-themed videos on YouTube and aspires to join the U.S. Marine Corps
upon graduation and generally feels drawn to help others in need. He was the first to help eight days prior
when a man careened off the side of the freeway and landed in the same
intersection. That driver also escaped
with minor injuries.
Andrew said
accidents like these have been happening for years and it is time for the city
to make a change for the safety of everyone.
Will the city agree and make changes before a more serious accident
occurs?
Mark Bello is the CEO and General Counsel of Lawsuit
Financial Corporation, a pro-justice lawsuit funding company.
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