A Utah state trooper has pulled an unconscious driver from his car after it got stuck on train tracks, seconds before a train barrelled through.
Trooper Ruben Correa, who has been with the Utah Highway Patrol for two years, was responding to a routine traffic stop when he got a call from dispatch about a car on train tracks not far from him, according to Sergeant Nick Street, the spokesman for the Utah Highway Patrol.The driver of the car, a man in his 20s, was unconscious, and a medical issue contributed to him driving off the nearby highway and onto the tracks.
Mr Correa left the traffic stop and began to drive down the freeway using his spotlight to search for the vehicle, Sgt Street told CNN. He ended up arriving in the nick of time. It took 35 seconds from when Mr Correa got out of his patrol car to when the train hit the stranded vehicle.The trooper and driver were still on the embankment when the train came through.
The Utah Highway Patrol has called Mr Correa's actions "incredible and heroic," but he said none of that was on his mind.
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