Man Saves Elderly Woman From Certain Death (her wheelchair tipped and she fell on railroad tracks)

[Kadie]

May 11, 2008 11:41 pm US/Pacific

Man Saves Elderly Woman From Certain Death

LODI (CBS13) ― Police praised a young man who came to the aid of an elderly woman on Saturday night, saying that he saved her from certain death.

20-year old Samuel Huffman pulled 82-year old Marguerite Jones from train tracks at a Lodi crossing mere moments before she would have been struck and killed by an oncoming train.

According to Jones, she was crossing the Union Pacific railroad tracks on Locust Street when her motorized wheelchair tipped over, causing her to fall onto the tracks.

"I knew I couldn't get up," she said. "I knew I couldn't get off the railroad tracks."

Authorities say Samuel Huffman was driving by when he say Jones lying on the tracks. Seeing an approaching train, he got out of his vehicle and managed to pull her from the tracks just as the train passed.

"It was either sit there and watch her get hit by a train or do something," Huffman said. "There's no way I could have just sat there."

more...
http://cbs13.com/local/man.saves.woman.2.721562.html

[lisa58]

1. Thank goodness he was there.

[Webster Green]

4. Really lucky for her that he was.

Wheelchairs and railroad tracks seem like a bad mix.

[lisa58]

7. I have a daughter in a wheelchair...

...I've imagined it all.

[wtmusic]

2. Thanks for some good news. nt

[UndertheOcean]

3. And thank goodness he was a quick thinker and didn't freeze

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. K & R

nice to read about a real hero.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. Why does society let women in wheelchairs cross RR tracks alone at night?

I applaud the mans actions, but I'm a little peeved that the lady got caught in the situation in the first place. In my perfect world she would have her choice of escorts to assist her.

[Beregond2]

8. I was

about to say: "What the hell is an old lady in a wheelchair doing crossing railroad tracks at night?"

[applegrove]

9. What a hero.