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“Dear PoPville,
I’ve read many stories here about the kindness of strangers in times of trouble. I myself experienced this last week after a car hit me head-on while biking home near the National Mall. At least half a dozen people stopped to make sure I was ok, offering names and numbers as witnesses to the accident. An out-of-uniform cop make sure I had the information of the driver and asked a least of dozen times if I needed medical attention.
I thought this would make a good question at some point. Something like “When have you experienced the kindness of strangers/neighbors in a time of need?”
Photo by Paul B Jones
A very good example arose yesterday – Paul wrote us:
“@PoPville rock creek pkwy closed because of crash below Calvert. Photo looking at Connecticut bridge”
Mike Lenahan filled in some details:
“@PoPville I was directly behind the car that got hit. Came out of nowhere. Tree simply went from standing to horizontal in a second.”
“Car was crushed. I pulled over, called 911, & helped lift the tree off the car with maybe 15 other people.”
“Dozens of people helped. Runners, commuters, a NPS ranger, and – of course – first responders.”
“A jogger who happened to be a doctor spoke to the man through the shattered window and kept him talking.”
“EMS starting tearing into the vehicle to get the man out. A bystander had a chainsaw that he used to cut up the massive trunk.”
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