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Steve helps crash victims
Friday August 15th 2008. Posted: 09:30
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Engineer Steve Davies with the crowbar he used to free a trapped driver
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Engineer Steve Davies has been hailed the hero of the hour after going to the aid of three crash victims.
The Openreach hoist operator was driving to Welshpool on the A483, after completing a job in Wrexham, when he was caught up in a road traffic accident. As he approached the Lions Quays hotel on the busy dual carriageway, Steve saw a Transit van travelling towards him, veer across the carriageway and plough into a Peugeot saloon car, in front of him. Cool-headed Steve parked his BT Transit and jumped out to offer help to the two injured women in the Peugeot before grabbing a crowbar from his van to release the Transit driver who was trapped in his van. “We had had a very heavy downpour and the driver of the Transit said he braked, but lost control of the vehicle. “I was about five car lengths behind the Peugeot and I could see this van going straight for the car in front of me. Both vehicles were extensively damaged,” Steve said. Steve immediately called the emergency services and spent his time checking the three people and calming them down. He also had to act quickly to alert other drivers to the hazard in the road. “The women weren’t badly hurt but the man - who was in his thirties - seemed to have internal injuries. Fortunately another driver stopped and offered me help,” he said. The three people were taken by ambulance to hospital in Shrewsbury. Steve, a father of two from Chirk, has worked for BT for 11 years and is a union safety rep, so safety issues are high on the agenda. Before he joined BT, Steve had a lucky escape himself when he was involved in a five car pile-up on the M56 in which a motorist died. “This was a lucky escape for everyone and it all ended well. It is the first accident I have come across since I started working for BT, but I stayed calm and was able to go on to Welshpool to my next customer,” he said. Steve Roberts, operational manager for Complex, North Wales, praised Steve’s actions and said he used his initiative and stayed calm in difficult circumstances. “It could all have been a lot worse, but this is something that I would always expect one of my team to do and Steve did it. He has just completed a safety course which also helped,” he said.
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