A Utah state trooper might have saved a man’s life after springing into action and pulling his unconscious body from a car that came to rest on train tracks.
Trooper Ruben Correa was responding to a traffic stop when he got a call from dispatch notifying him of a car that was on train tracks not far from him.
A man, who is in his 20s, had a medical issue that caused him to careen off the road and land on the tracks.
Correa, searching with a spotlight, arrived at the scene and discovered that the driver of the car was still inside.
“I saw he was unconscious, so I opened his door [and] explained to him we’ve got to get out,” Correa said after the incident. “He wasn’t responding. Then I heard the horn from a train.”
Correa took a little more than 30 seconds to pull the man from the car and onto the embankment, just as the train smashed into the man’s red SUV.
“I think I got him out a second just before the collision. At that point, I actually wasn’t really thinking, I was just doing my job,” Correa said.
The hero trooper said afterward that he was “still trying to process everything that happened” and was grateful he could rescue the man and that “he’s alive and he’s back with his family now.”
An absolutely amazing display of life-saving heroism by @UTHighwayPatrol Trooper Correa as he risks everything to save a man in a car that’s about to be struck by a train. These are our cops! Trooper Correa, you make all of law enforcement proud.
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— Bill Bratton (@CommissBratton) October 18, 2019
