A young woman from Oak Lawn made a compassionate stop late last month to help someone in need. When 23-year-old Holly Swaim saw a car accident on I-88, she quickly pulled over and jumped out of her car to help.
Another college student her age was in the wrecked car yelling for someone to help get her seat belt off-- it was wrapped around her neck.
Swaim grabbed a pocket knife and cut the seat belt. She then stayed to comfort Beth Wallace until paramedics arrived to free her from the car.
Wallace is now at a hospital recovering from several broken bones. She just got the chance to personally thank Swaim for stopping to help. Here's what Wallace said at a press conference yesterday:
"I remember she just kept saying to me, 'You're alive, you're going to be OK.' She just sat with me the whole time and I'm just so thankful that she was there."
It's so great to hear stories of strangers helping strangers. How many of us would have just driven by in that same situation? Or would we have stopped to help? It's hard to say. But on that day, Swaim stopped. And her simple act of compassion meant the world to Wallace.
Check out the video from NBC 5 of the two reuniting for the first time since the crash:
1 comments:
the age old question...how does it go? is a person heroic or does it take a situation to make the person heroic?
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