By Daniel L. Bamberg
Daniel@Centrevillepress.com
“This was one of those situations where I believe God put everybody in place to help someone who needed it,” said Bibb County High School Assistant Softball Coach, Jan Lowery.
On the way to Troy several weeks back the Lady Choctaws were on their way to compete in the Region Tournament. Junior player, Anna Michael Oakley was asleep on the bus but awoke to something peculiar.
A man was on the outside of a vehicle trying to stop it, as a female driver was passed out in the car. The unidentified man was able to stop the car and get it to the side of the road. At this point BCHS Softball Head Coach, Charles McCaleb, who was driving the team bus, pulled over behind the vehicle in distress.
Lowery and Oakley hurried out to assist in any way they could. Lowery and an unidentified woman who arrived on the scene pulled the seemingly unconscious woman from the vehicle, after unfastening her seat belt. Lowery, Oakley, and the unidentified woman checked for a pulse. According to Oakley it was difficult to find one, but Oakley and Lowery both agreed she was alive.
The unidentified woman popped the unconscious lady on the chest once, and a mint flew out of her mouth. Finally the woman came to, and everyone involved waited only a few moments until an EMT arrived. Neither Oakley nor Lowery know anything beyond what occurred on the side of the road that day. Both however believe the woman to be okay.
Oakley credits her HOSA teacher, Mrs. Mount for training her to remain calm and think in such a situation. Lowery and Oakley are also very humble when speaking about the story. Neither of them want to take credit for what occurred.
“The man who stopped the car was the real hero. Had he not been able to stop it, nothing else could have happened to help her,” explained Lowery.
“When you come up on something like this, you never know if you can make a difference or not,’ Oakley stated.
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