Story at a glance
- A group of motorists in Atlanta became heroes after a viral video showed them smashing the pick-up truck windows to rescue a man suffering from a medical emergency on a busy highway.
- “The truck was still moving, but the driver’s head was leaned over and his eyes were closed,” Juordin Carter, who recorded the events, told Inside Edition.
- Eventually, after numerous unsuccessful attempts, the group was able to pierce a small hole in the driver’s rear windshield, which is when Carter’s friend, Jelani Kimble, finished the job.
A group of motorists in Atlanta became heroes after they smashed a pick-up truck’s windows to rescue a man suffering from a medical emergency on a busy highway, all captured in a viral video.
“I looked over to the right and I saw an older guy driving his car,” Juordin Carter told ABC7. “But he was leaned over. He had passed out.”
The strangers used a variety of tools, including a hammer and stroller, in an effort to bust out windows of the man’s slowly moving truck after failing to get his attention, according to ABC 7.
“The truck was still moving, but the driver’s head was leaned over and his eyes were closed,” Carter, who recorded the events, told Inside Edition.
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Eventually, after numerous unsuccessful attempts, the group was able to pierce a small hole in the driver’s rear windshield, which is when Carter’s friend, Jelani Campbell, finished the job and found a way into the truck.
“I immediately got on the truck, started kicking the rest of the windshield down,” Campbell told ABC 7. “That is when I slid in and unlocked the door.”
Out of context, the video might appear to show a street brawl. Carter said that some were saying “people were fighting in the street, people were trying to break into his car.” These theories led members of the group to come forward.
“So that’s what made us decide, OK, well we gotta get the truth out there,” Carter said.
Carter told Inside Edition that she stayed with the unnamed man until paramedics, who confirmed was in the midst of an emergency, arrived on the scene.
“I just stayed with him and made sure that he was OK and told him to keep his eyes open. All of us were a team out there. We’re just proud that we all could come together like that,” Carter said.
Some of the rescuers have kept in touch with the man’s wife, who as of Wednesday, said he is doing better but is still in the hospital, according to ABC 7.
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