Close call in Kendallville
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:11 pm
From WNDU South Bend:
Three 15-year-old girls and a mystery man are being credited with rescuing a man whose wheelchair got stuck on railroad tracks as a train bore down on him in northeastern Indiana.
It happened Saturday in Kendallville, 25 miles north-northwest of Fort Wayne.
Jordan McCarty tells The News-Sun that she, Chelsea Stephens and Holly Handshoe were walking to pick up a movie from Family Video.
She says they saw Mike Schneider stuck on the Norfolk Southern tracks.
The girls and the man first tried to push Schneider forward and off the tracks, but the chair wouldn't budge.
McCarty then called 911, while the others kept working, managing to dislodge it by pushing it backward two minutes before a train barreled past.
http://www.wndu.com/hometop/headlines/99736634.html
Three 15-year-old girls and a mystery man are being credited with rescuing a man whose wheelchair got stuck on railroad tracks as a train bore down on him in northeastern Indiana.
It happened Saturday in Kendallville, 25 miles north-northwest of Fort Wayne.
Jordan McCarty tells The News-Sun that she, Chelsea Stephens and Holly Handshoe were walking to pick up a movie from Family Video.
She says they saw Mike Schneider stuck on the Norfolk Southern tracks.
The girls and the man first tried to push Schneider forward and off the tracks, but the chair wouldn't budge.
McCarty then called 911, while the others kept working, managing to dislodge it by pushing it backward two minutes before a train barreled past.
http://www.wndu.com/hometop/headlines/99736634.html