A child who was being dragged down a small hill leading to the highway before the helpless eyes of a close relative was saved at the last moment by a passerby who stopped him in time.
“I turn around and see a stroller going down the highway and my heart stopped,” Donna Gunderson, the rescuer’s sister, testified in an interview with NBC Los Angeles (NBCLA) on Wednesday.
In a video captured by surveillance cameras, a stroller can be seen moving slowly down a busy seven-lane highway in California, under the helpless eyes of the child’s great aunt, who tries to push her away. Stop it, no use.
The latter tripped and injured her knee when she tried to chase the stroller, which was pushed by the wind, according to testimony. She could not get up and started crying.
That’s when a good Samaritan named Ron Nessman came to the child’s aid.
“She was doing everything she could to get back on her feet. When I got to her, her knees were bleeding. She was in shock, she was crying,” he told NBCLA.
“I knew I could achieve it and I succeeded and I’m very grateful for that because I wouldn’t have wanted to see the result if I wasn’t there,” he continued.
Homeless for about eight years since his wife’s death, the man was in the area returning from an interview at a restaurant, NBCLA reported. He then lived with his sister for three months.
