Archive for June, 2009
I couldn’t reach my cell phone to call for help
Paula Shaw was driving home one night just minding her own business when a car shot out in front of her. The woman driving the rogue vehicle was leaving work when she attempted to beat oncoming traffic and turned left in front of Paula’s vehicle.
Nobody but OnStar could have found me
Neal Kroll was about 90 miles from his home in Spokane, Washington, on a snowy, icy evening when he had a near miss with a train. Neal couldn’t stop in time, so he accelerated instead. He barely missed the train, but was unable to avoid a nose dive over a 30-foot cliff into the frozen Palouse River.
I started having early labor contractions in the car
It was a cold January day and Susan Wenz-Denise — seven months pregnant with twins — was glad to be working from home. Her son Andrew, 4 1/2, was playing in the next room when Susan started feeling nauseous.
My puppy’s been poisioned and needs help
Beverly Hartley’s 9-month-old Yorkshire terrier, Fidelis, was accidentally poisoned when, unbeknownst to Beverly, the gardener put down some poisonous snail pellets and little Fidelis — who barely weighs five pounds — found one and tasted it.
One quick-thinking 7-year-old pushed the button to help save mom
Kerry MacLean and her 2-year-old sister were on the way to a family gathering on Mother’s Day when their mother suffered a sudden diabetic attack and began driving on the wrong side of the road.
