A Pittsburgh dad decided to intervene after seeing an accident and held the victim’s hand until emergency responders arrived, attempting to assist the driver in escaping a rollover car wreck. The moments were caught on camera.
Nathaniel Bunn, his son, and his father abandoned their car at a red light to assist when they saw the car tip over on its roof in Pittsburgh’s Chateau district.
“It was a loud, a loud boom, and then a car went in the air and landed, and it was just, you know, we just wanted to make sure nobody was hurt if we could,” Bunn told WTAE.
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Bunn was only a few steps away from the scene of the car crash, so he had vivid memories of it, including the panicked efforts by his family and an outsider to rescue the driver.
But the car was on its roof, and the door was stuck.
“We tried to get it open, but we couldn’t. The door was jammed. Another pedestrian, he had a tire iron or something that we tried to get the door open with, but we couldn’t pry it open, so I resigned to sit down and just told her to hold my hand,” Bunn recounted.
According to Bunn, he reassured the woman that an ambulance was on its way as she held his hand tightly while never making any noise.
He said he told the driver, “‘You can squeeze my hand, for comfort. Everything’s going to be OK. We can’t get the door open, but just hang on. Help’s on the way.'”
Bunn expressed concern that so many people were recording rather than assisting. Nevertheless, he’s glad he was there, and he remained there until paramedics arrived.
“I was in despair. I don’t feel like that often, just because of how the world was going on and a lot of things and a lot of people were videotaping and stuff,” Bunn said.
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According to Bunn, he held her hand while he sat on Western Avenue at the crossroads with the West End Bridge until paramedics from Pittsburgh came.
He revealed that he had thought a lot about the driver since.
“I did call AGH to ask how the crash accident was doing, and they said we can just tell you that no one’s critical,” Bunn recalled. “I didn’t know her name.”
On Monday, Fox 4 reported that the crash victim’s family reached out to Bunn after the story went viral.
“Her family had reached out and said she’s forever grateful,” he explained. “I want them to know that I’m no hero and that I’m just a great guy doing what I thought was right.”
“My actions inspire people to do right all across the world.”
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