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Boynton Beach police in Florida posted the video this week on Facebook in hopes of locating the Good Samaritans who rushed into live traffic to help a driver who had suffered a medical episode.
Boynton Beach police in Florida posted the video this week on Facebook in hopes of locating the Good Samaritans who rushed into live traffic to help a driver who had suffered a medical episode.
Florida police have located a number of the Good Samaritans who rushed to help a woman who had suffered a medical episode while driving on a busy road.
Boynton Beach police say they were able to contact the quick-thinking heroes and will reunite them with the woman they rescued.
“We don’t think it’s an understatement to say that these Good Samaritans are an inspiration of goodness in our country today!” read an updated post on the police department’s facebook page.
The incredible incident was caught by traffic cameras on May 5, when police say a woman driving a dark-colored vehicle suffered a medical episode while driving on Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach, south of Palm Beach.
As the woman’s car crept through the intersection at Congress Avenue, police say her co-worker raced across the street yelling at other motorists in order to get their attention and keep them from hitting the runaway car.
Police said the co-worker had seen the woman slumped over the steering wheel of her car.
“Several people got out of their cars and worked together to stop the moving car,” Boynton Beach police said.
One woman reportedly grabbed a dumbbell from her vehicle and another man used it to smash the rear passenger side window. Another person then climbed through the broken window to unlock the passenger side door, and someone was able to put the car in park, police said.
The group of Good Samaritans then pushed the car to a nearby 7-Eleven parking lot, where police say a nurse who was on the phone with 911 provided medical attention to the woman until emergency crews arrived.
Police had originally posted the video on their social media channels “in hopes of learning the identities of all the strangers who came together to save this woman’s life.”
Boynton Beach police say they plan to honor the Good Samaritans in a ceremony at their police headquarters this week.
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