A dog is being hailed as a hero after the paw patrol led authorities to the scene where her owner crashed her truck in New England.
Two injured people, including the dog’s owner, were rescued Monday after police responded to a report about Tinsley, a 1-year-old Shiloh shepherd, roaming Veteran’s Memorial Bridge, which stretches across the New Hampshire-Vermont border on Interstate 89. The canine got officers to tail her to a span of damaged guardrail where they saw the wreck below, according to New Hampshire State Police.
Tinsley alerted “them to what was off the roadway, where they discovered a truck which had been overturned with two gentlemen that were ejected from the vehicle,” New Hampshire State Police Lt. Daniel Baldassare said.
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Trooper Tom Sandberg and officers from the Lebanon Police Department discovered that “both occupants of the pickup truck had been ejected from the vehicle and were hypothermic and seriously injured” and called for medical help, according to a Facebook statement from the NHSP. They later learned Tinsley belonged to one of the injured men.
Cam Laundry, the owner of the truck, described Tinsley as being his “little guardian angel” and said it was a “miracle that she had that kind of intelligence to do what she did.”
Baldassare told CNN this situation was “almost like a real-life Lassie situation” and credited the dog with saving the lives of the two men. “I don’t think they would have survived the night given the temperatures,” he said.
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Laundry and his friend were taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The owner was later released.
“Of course, she never leaves my side, so we’re always together,” Laundry said of his dog, according to WMUR. “In that truck that got wrecked, she’s always my co-pilot. She’s always with me.”
Vermont State Police opened an investigation into the crash.
