Accidents

On an interstate highway in the northeast, a motorcycle patrolman was pursuing a truck that braked abruptly to make a turn. The patrolman slammed into the truck's tailgate and was seriously injured. A motorist who saw the accident, stopped, pulled off his neck-tie and quickly made a tourniquet, slowing, then stopping the bleeding. A paramedic who arrived a few minutes later said the tourniquet had saved the patrolman's life.

Now fast forward to five years later: The same motorist who saved the patrolman's life, driving in the same area, lost control of his car and crashed into a tree. His right leg was severely smashed and cut - blood was flowing profusely. The same patrolman who was injured in the previous accident, and now in a patrol car, arrived at the scene, applied a tourniquet that stemmed the flow until the paramedics arrived - saving the motorist's life.