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 Posted: 17:24 - 13 Feb 2009  Post subject: Taxi driver leaps into icy pond to save trapped motorist |
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from: https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5711992.ece
| Quote: | A woman trapped upside down in a sinking car was rescued by a taxi driver who ignored warnings from the emergency services that it was too dangerous for him to enter the freezing water.
James Brown, 41, was driving along an icy road shortly before midnight on Tuesday when he spotted the headlights of a Ford Ka half-submerged in a duck pond in Bishop Burton, East Yorkshire.
Inside was Caroline Saunders, 28, a social worker, who had skidded on black ice and lost control of her car. The car had crashed through a fence and flipped on to its roof before landing in the water, leaving her trapped inside.
Mr Brown did not realise that anyone was still in the car until he dialled 999 on his mobile phone and began speaking to a fire service controller. Only then did he spot Miss Saunders inside the upside-down vehicle.
Though the controller at the other end of the phone urged him not to risk his life by attempting a rescue, Mr Brown said he could see that the car was filling with water.
He decided that the emergency services would not reach the scene in time.
“Another ten minutes and she would have died. I put down the phone and went in. It was sinking down and half the car was underwater already,” he said.
“I could see someone screaming and banging on the window. It was like a scene from a horror film.”
The door was jammed and the window would not open so, after trying to reassure the terrified Miss Saunders, he flagged down a motorist, who found a hammer in the back of his car.
Mr Brown, who is from Beverley, said: “I went back with it. I shouted to her and she said she was the only one in the car. I was just so relieved that she was talking to me. I smashed the window. There were still bits of glass in the frame, which I picked out by hand before dragging the girl out. She was very shaken up, but at least she got out.”
Mr Brown, a self-employed taxi driver for the past six years, who has one child, carried Miss Saunders from the pond and put her in his car with a blanket around her. She was then taken to hospital and treated for shock, cuts and bruises.
Miss Saunders, who was on her way home from work when the accident happened, said that she had felt certain that she was going to die.
“It’s midnight, there’s no one around and I’m stuck and I can’t get out,” she said. “I saw some headlights and I was beeping my horn, banging on the window, thinking, ‘Please have seen me, please have seen me’.”
After being discharged from hospital she was able to meet Mr Brown again and thank him. A fire service spokesman said that Mr Brown had performed an exceptional rescue. |
Someone buy that man a pint or several.
Good to hear there are still a few decent people left |
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Posted: 20:44 - 13 Feb 2009  Post subject: |
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But he saved a Social Worker, should be shot at dawn. 
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How long till we hear that the passing motorist has been arested on terrorist charges due to having an offensive weapon in the boot of his car 
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The fact that he actually got out to help is good enough. Most people just watch and walk past in this country when it comes to accidents
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nobodys putting him down
We just find it funny reading the hyped report of how he LEPT from his car ripped off his shirt revealling his rugged 6 pack and huge abbs then shouting in a deep manly voice never fear taximan is here. He then heroicly leapt into the deep dark icy lake where many have ventured but never returned. On arriving at the car he realising the window was inpregnable so ventured off to get backup on returning to the road he stopped an oncoming car using just his chest hair and retreived the hammer of THOR and returned to the dame in distress in one big swing he destroyed the inpregnable window freeing the dame and they all live happy ever after
WHAT REALLY HAPPEND
Seen some retard who couldnt drive in the ice had flipped there car upside down in 3" of water. Deceided to go an see if they were dead and get some picks for rotten.com. So i walked out an got my feet wet. Found some stupid bitch in car who wouldnt wind down the window so tryed to kick the window in but it hurt my already fucking freezin toes. So went to find something to break the window i got back to the road to get seen some pikey coming and knew hed have a weapon of some sort so flagged him down and borrowed his hammer. I went and smashed the window but the bitch still wouldnt get the fuck out till i removed all the glass. Finnally got her out and back to my car and tyed her up in a blanket and was just about to punch her in the tits and do her up the gary but the plod came Ahh well better luck next time 
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