A doctor who grew up in Milford is saving lives with a device he invented to help people with hip fractures.

Dr. Robert Buckman, 75, now lives in Maryland but worked as a trauma surgeon at Temple University.

He says it only takes one-third of a second for a hip fracture to occur, which was why he developed the Tango Belt several years ago.

The Tango Belt is able to sense a fall and deploy airbags to cushion the blow.

Buckman says 340,000 people a year break their hip, and about one-third of them wind up dying in the year of their injury.

He says with COVID-19 numbers rising again, there could be an increase in falls.