17-year old James Laboke is the hero of the day today in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
When he walked his usual walk to work this morning somewhat before 6 a.m., he saw the car of 80-year-old Francois Truffaut standing on the Amtrak Downeaster railroad track, with the morning train of 6.10 bound to approach and the owner unconscious behind the steering wheel.
When Laboke saw the car, he pounded on the windows to wake the driver
up. The engine of the car was running, and the doors were locked.
When he did not manage to revive Truffault, the young man, who does not own a mobile phone, did not hesitate at this sight and ran 100 yards to the police station to alert the police and save Truffauts life. " I never thought about it," Laboke said, I just knew I couldn't let that man get crushed by a train".
After the police was alerted by Laboke at 6 a.m., they sent out a radio message, which was picked up by police officer Janet Paradiso. She acted immediately. "I knew I had to do something," she said later about her arrival on the scene at 6.05 a.m. "I knew there was no time".
When she heard the train' s whistle just as she arrived, she rammed her police cruiser into Truffault's 1987 flamboyant pink Cadillac Seville, pushing it from the train track.
About thirty seconds later, the
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