LAKEWOOD, Colo. ( KDVR ) — A good Samaritan rescued a woman by stopping her out-of-control vehicle in Lakewood on Friday, Sept. 6.
FOX31 spoke to the man who risked his own safety to help the unconscious driver about the entire ordeal. The Sept. 6 commute turned into a scary situation for drivers heading in 6th Avenue westbound, just east of Wadsworth Boulevard.
Eastbound U.S. 6 to be closed in Lakewood Sunday night into Monday morning: CDOT
“Just after Sheridan I saw a vehicle that swerved in front of me,” said Ryan Myrick. “They swerved all the way over and hit the median, the dividing median. Then bounced up and over and then back to the wall of the right-hand side of westbound.”
He realized the driver was unconscious behind the wheel.
“The driver was completely passed out hunched over the passage seat still going forward no hands on the wheel, no nothing,” said Myrick.
With traffic moving at about 30 mph, he made a split-second decision to sacrifice his pickup truck to stop the driver.