Positivity: Hero risks life to save teen
I had to do something, says father of three after roadside rescue.
Published: Nov 19, 2007 11:01 AM ESTThe car (slammed) into the utility pole — The electrical wires everywhere. The crackling fire. The terrified kid trapped in the car, pounding on the windows.
People around you screaming, “Don’t touch the car! Don’t touch the car!”
What would you do?
Would you act? Could you?
Mark Sellers did.
Saturday night, the father of three yanked a 17-year-old driver out of a car before it went up in flames along Strasburg Pike in West Lampeter Township.
Today, police are calling Sellers a hero.
“He definitely saved his life,” West Lampeter Township Police Chief James Walsh said, adding that police plan to give Sellers a commendation for his actions.
Sellers, a 45-year-old drug sales rep, still is grappling with what happened in just a few minutes that could have forever changed his life and the life of a teen he had never met.
He says he could not have done anything else.
“I was not going to let that kid die in a car fire,” he says. “I had to do something. I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do anything and he would have died.”
The teen, who police are not identifying due to his age, broke his leg in the accident. He still was in Lancaster General Hospital today, recovering from his injuries, but is expected to be discharged later this week. …..
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