Dashcam captures heroic B.C. truck driver saving man in medical distress
Global News
On July 19, Jaspreet Singh was on Annacis Island and turning off Highway 91 to Cliveden Avenue East when the car in front of him suddenly stopped in the road.
A B.C. truck driver is being hailed as a hero after he stopped a moving car whose driver was suffering from a medical emergency.
On July 19, Jaspreet Singh was on Annacis Island and turning off Highway 91 to Cliveden Avenue East when the car in front of him suddenly stopped in the road.
Singh, who has only been with the company Wood Wyant for just over a month, stopped behind him, his dashcam capturing what was happening.
“It didn’t move for a good five seconds,” Singh told Global News.
He thought the driver might be on his phone but then he looked through the rear-view window and saw the driver looking back at him.
As he got out of his truck to find out more, the car started rolling downhill.
“So luckily somehow, the guy had the driver’s side window open just enough that I could get my arm (in) and I roll the window down first,” Singh said.
“And then I tried to steer it towards the island so they would hit it and stop by itself. But then, I just dived into the car, put the car in park and turned it off, and that’s how it ended up stopping.”