A compassionate teenager and…a car crash saved a tourist’s life Monday morning after his car stalled on a train track.
According to police, 80-year-old Francois Truffaut may have gone into insulin shock and passed out as his car reached the crossing in Old Orchard Beach.
When Police Captain Janet Paradiso was notified she “knew there was no time. I had to do something.”
She arrived just as she heard the whistle of an approaching train, and rammed into Truffaut’s vehicle with her police cruiser.
“It was that close,” said Police Chief Brian Paul.
Police were only able to save Truffaut because a teenager rushing to work spotted the stalled vehicle and decided to run to the station to report it.
“I never thought about it. I just I couldn’t let that man get crushed by a train,” said 17-year-old James Laboke.
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