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I almost cried when I read that news, it was a really nice of that man get in action to prevent the accident from getting worse! It's a really bad news then became good news.
Saturday, December 31, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Driver helps stop careening vehicle on I-90 bridge
By Ashley Bach
Seattle Times Eastside bureau
It was a jarring holiday vision: a car with an unconscious driver, sideswiping a concrete barrier as it traveled along Interstate 90 with a toddler strapped in the back seat.
Leslie Reynolds couldn't believe what she was seeing, but before she could act, a man swung his pickup in front of the errant car, tapped his brakes to touch bumpers and helped the car stop safely on the shoulder.
The scene unfolded about noon Thursday in the eastbound lanes, on the bridge between Bellevue and Mercer Island. According to witnesses and the State Patrol, a woman passed out at the wheel, her car hit the right concrete barrier, crossed all lanes and ran into the center concrete median — with the small boy in his car seat. No one was hurt.
"It definitely was a good Samaritan kind of thing," Trooper Kelly Spangler said of the truck driver who helped. The woman's car was slowing down and may have stopped on the shoulder on its own, Spangler said, but it still could have veered back into traffic.
Troopers did not identify the woman or the man who helped her, and they did not say why the woman passed out. "That's between her and her doctor," Spangler said.
Reynolds, who lives in Seattle, was on her way to a doctor's appointment in Bellevue when she saw the woman's Subaru Forester run repeatedly into the center median. The pickup driver then crossed lanes to head her off and tapped his brakes two or three times to slow the woman's car down. Both the truck and car had minor damage.
Reynolds, the pickup's driver and another person helped the woman out of the car. She was pale and flustered and didn't know she had been in an accident, Reynolds said.
Police and firefighters arrived a few minutes later and eventually drove the woman and the boy to her mother's home on Mercer Island, Spangler said.
Reynolds said she arrived at the doctor's office, sat in the waiting room and "cried because I was just so glad they were all right."
Saturday, December 31, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Driver helps stop careening vehicle on I-90 bridge
By Ashley Bach
Seattle Times Eastside bureau
It was a jarring holiday vision: a car with an unconscious driver, sideswiping a concrete barrier as it traveled along Interstate 90 with a toddler strapped in the back seat.
Leslie Reynolds couldn't believe what she was seeing, but before she could act, a man swung his pickup in front of the errant car, tapped his brakes to touch bumpers and helped the car stop safely on the shoulder.
The scene unfolded about noon Thursday in the eastbound lanes, on the bridge between Bellevue and Mercer Island. According to witnesses and the State Patrol, a woman passed out at the wheel, her car hit the right concrete barrier, crossed all lanes and ran into the center concrete median — with the small boy in his car seat. No one was hurt.
"It definitely was a good Samaritan kind of thing," Trooper Kelly Spangler said of the truck driver who helped. The woman's car was slowing down and may have stopped on the shoulder on its own, Spangler said, but it still could have veered back into traffic.
Troopers did not identify the woman or the man who helped her, and they did not say why the woman passed out. "That's between her and her doctor," Spangler said.
Reynolds, who lives in Seattle, was on her way to a doctor's appointment in Bellevue when she saw the woman's Subaru Forester run repeatedly into the center median. The pickup driver then crossed lanes to head her off and tapped his brakes two or three times to slow the woman's car down. Both the truck and car had minor damage.
Reynolds, the pickup's driver and another person helped the woman out of the car. She was pale and flustered and didn't know she had been in an accident, Reynolds said.
Police and firefighters arrived a few minutes later and eventually drove the woman and the boy to her mother's home on Mercer Island, Spangler said.
Reynolds said she arrived at the doctor's office, sat in the waiting room and "cried because I was just so glad they were all right."
Sweetheart!