A driver who was struck by a tractor-trailer on I-95 south
in Norwalk is searching for the good Samaritan that helped her in the
aftermath.
On Halloween, Sarah Wayland says she was taking Exit 14 at
around 2 p.m. when her car was struck on the driver’s side.
"The left side of my car, it felt like it exploded on
me…I had no idea what had happened. I was stunned and disoriented," she
says.
Wayland says a registered nurse, described as a man in his
30s, pulled over and helped her get out of her car, along with help from good
Samaritans Kevin and Kathleen Vasco.
Wayland says she was disoriented, but the RN — using his
emergency medical training — got her to a safe area and began rendering medical
aid.
"He took my blood pressure at one point and I was in
between crying and slightly passing out," she says.
Wayland was rushed to the hospital with a concussion and
other injuries, but she says she is expected to make a full recovery, and is
grateful for the quick thinking of strangers.
“I just want to reach out and somehow find him to say
‘thank you.’ It's OK if he wants to stay anonymous…I just hope he gets
to see this to know how grateful I am that he would go so far out of his way to
help someone else," says Wayland.
She says her husband Patrick and her three daughters are
also grateful to the three good Samaritans.
Wayland says the driver of the tractor-trailer was ticketed
for failing to stop.