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Caught on Tape: Trucker Saves Driver Who Suffered Heart Attack ( WVA )
wjla.com ^
| 03/18/09
| staff
Posted on 03/19/2009 10:53:06 AM PDT by kellynla
WEIRTON, W.Va. - A Pennsylvania truck driver is being called a hero, credited with saving a woman's life after she suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel of her car. And the entire incident was caught on tape. George Lantzy, a truck driver from Monroeville, Penn., says he was driving along US 22 in West Virginia when he noticed a white car weaving in and out of the eastbound lanes.
As other drivers pulled over and tried to jump out and stop the car, Lantzy said he knew something was very wrong and jumped into action.
"When I was coming up alongside of it, I looked over, that's when I seen [the driver] slumped over the steering wheel, and that's when I realized there was someone in the car," Lantzy recalled. "So, instead of bumping her off the road, I figured I'll get up in front of her and try stopping her that way."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: heartattack; truckdriver
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posted on
03/19/2009 10:53:06 AM PDT
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kellynla
To: kellynla
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posted on
03/19/2009 10:55:44 AM PDT
by
unkus
To: kellynla
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posted on
03/19/2009 10:59:37 AM PDT
by
Tired of Taxes
(Dad, I will always think of you.)
To: kellynla
a sincere man doing what he could - he can deny being a hero, but he is one.
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03/19/2009 11:00:53 AM PDT
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tioga
To: kellynla
May God bless and protect that man for his kind and brave actions!
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:01:17 AM PDT
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GWMcClintock
("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3)
To: kellynla
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:02:15 AM PDT
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IYAS9YAS
(Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
To: Roccus; tubebender; Pete-R-Bilt; glock rocks; NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:06:02 AM PDT
by
don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Private First Class - 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC)
To: kellynla
Typical trucker...either tailgating or holding up traffic.
To: kellynla
Great story!
Except the grammar police in me went into overload.
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:16:43 AM PDT
by
hoe_cake
(" 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us." Ronald Reagan)
To: kellynla
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posted on
03/19/2009 11:22:44 AM PDT
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Ghengis
To: kellynla
Excellent! I’m glad there are people like this still out there. You here too much about the other kind.
To: kellynla
From The Article: "Ofc. Apesos appears to disagree. "If he would just kept on going, she would have probably went across the center median, into the westbound lane, and would have had a head-on collision," he said. "It was a big miracle." Both Apesos and Lantzy say they've spoken to Haplin and she's doing just fine. She had emergency surgery that day to have a stent put in and is now recovering at home."
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03/19/2009 11:50:20 AM PDT
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sr4402
To: kellynla
Quick thinking on the part of the truck driver! Thank the Lord he was there!
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03/19/2009 11:53:45 AM PDT
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SuziQ
To: kellynla
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03/19/2009 2:45:27 PM PDT
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jimt
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