North Carolina Amazon Driver Hailed As A Hero For Saving Life
A 76-year-old woman, Shirley Roberts, was recently involved in a serious car accident, flipping her vehicle over an embankment in Asheboro, North Carolina. Fortunately, an Amazon delivery driver named Amanda Smith happened to be in the area and spotted the crash while making deliveries. She wasted no time, calling 911 before going back to check on the elderly driver. Now the Amazon driver is being hailed as a hero for saving the drivers life.
Smith’s timely intervention led to other passersby also rushing to help Roberts. MY FOX 8 reports emergency responders from Westside Fire and Rescue arrived on the scene minutes later and used specialized equipment to extract Roberts from the wrecked car, a process that took nearly half an hour.
Rescuers say that if the Amazon driver hadn’t come along when she did this might have been a more tragic crash. While the driver attributes her actions to instinct, Roberts’ daughter-in-law Eleanor believes a higher power led Smith to the scene. Roberts sustained injuries to her ribs, fingers, and neck, and is currently undergoing rehabilitation for her injuries, but is expected to fully recover.
This is what I love about humanity. We as humans do a lot of picking at each other over a variety of things. In a day and age when bullying, social media trolling and hate speech seem be common place it’s nice to see good gestures like this happen. I firmly believe stories like Smith and Roberts happen on a daily basis all over the country, but we don’t hear about it. Humans deep down care for one another, even strangers.
The next time you see a another person in distress I’m pretty sure you won’t ask them what race, religion or political affiliation they are you before you help them. And that’s what gives me hope that we will make it in the world. It gives me a feeling that deep down inside, we really love each other, and everything else is just noise!
Data Shows North Carolina Has The Most Dangerous Rural Roads In America
5. Mississippi
Rural crashes per billion miles driven: 60.37
10 year change: 38.4%
4. South Carolina
Rural crashes per billion miles driven: 63.6
10 year change: -6.3%
3. West Virginia
Rural crashes per billion miles driven: 67.18
10 year change: -33.6%
2. Connecticut
Rural crashes per billion miles driven: 68.74
10 year change: -39.0%
1. North Carolina
Rural crashes per billion miles driven: 70.45
10 year change: -11.2%
