Heroic Lorry Driver Stories

Perhaps it's because of their no-nonsense attitude, or maybe it is just because there are so many of them on the road, but when they aren't busy workings on assorted draw occupations many lorry drivers look to moonshine as have-a-go heroes. Whenever a member of the public is hailed as a hero for rescuing those in danger, more than often than not it turns out to be a lorry driver, or so it seems, and in the best stories, the lorry plays as large a portion as the driver in the rescue.

The Dog Whisperer

Les Petch, a lorry driver who dwells in Darlington, saved the life of a 10 twelvemonth old male child who was being savaged by a bull mastiff in May 2008. The male child was playing on a spot of grass on the Darlington Red Hallway Estate when the domestic dog began to seize with teeth and maul him. Les heard the commotion, rushed out, subdued the domestic dog and then sat on it until aid arrived. Les was bitten in the stomach, and the male child required a figure of tegument transplants after the serious attack. "I managed to wheedle the domestic dog off the child by cheering at it," Les said. "When it started to run at me I just thought, 'what am I doing?' But it was either me or the domestic dog - and it wasn't going to be me."

"Delivery at any time, any place, and in any weather..."

Lee Hall, a lorry driver in Occident Yorkshire, earned a particular citation from firemen after he helped deliverance 16 people during the inundations in January 2008. With fire crews stretched thin and struggling to deliver people trapped in their homes, Spike Lee reversed his lorry past times a row of flooded houses, allowing fire combatants to raise trapped occupants on to his trailer. Modest in the response to praise from fire crews, Spike Lee commented "It's not like I rescued anyone from a combustion building. I'd make it again."

Fight fire with lorry

Now for person who DID save people from a combustion building! Quick thought from a lorry driver (and an unconventional usage of his lorry trailer) helped to salvage two people from a combustion eating house in September 2004.

After a deep fat frier caused a blazing at a KFC in Horsham, two people were left trapped in the level above the eating house and were preparing to leap into the street. The lorry driver, parked across the route and in the center of a draw job, quickly reversed beneath the window, giving them a soft landing on the canvass roof of his trailer.

Red hot bringing

Another fire related narrative to complete up with! Whilst waiting at a set of traffic visible lights in March 2007, a lorry driver hauling crushed autos and bit metallic element was informed by a member of the public that his dawdler seemed to be on fire, with fume billowing out of the dorsum of his lorry. The lorry driver calmly drove to a nearby fire station, but the fire was combustion deep in a heap of bit metallic element and firemen were not able to snuff out it. Unruffled, the lorry driver, with the aid of a police force escort, drove his lorry to its original destination, the Norton scrapyard in Liverpool, where Cranes pulled apart the dawdler and fire crews finally managed to set out the blaze.