Image via Daytona Beach Police Department/Facebook
Far too often in our busy, seemingly disconnected world, people see someone in need and they just keep on going. While it’s easy to fixate on this negative, if you look hard enough you’ll find people out there doing good and helping others. One great example comes out of Daytona Beach, Florida.
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A video shared by Daytona Beach Police Department, which we’ve included for you to view for yourself, shows a group of citizens combine efforts to save someone trapped in an overturned SUV. These people didn’t have to stop and help, but they did, and they put themselves on the line at least a little bit to do it.
In the traffic camera footage, we see the SUV appear to run a red light, a Cadillac crossover catching it right at the rear driver’s side door and rear quarter panel. The impact spins the SUV, which flips onto its side.
At first the two crashed vehicles just sit in the middle of the intersection. But only a few short seconds later, a man parks his Honda CR-V, gets out, and runs over to the overturned SUV to make sure the people inside are okay.
This man is obviously older and he doesn’t run with vigor, yet still he gets out and helps. His action creates a domino effect and soon several others are out of their cars, running toward the overturned vehicle. One of them is the passenger in the Cadillac.
Those people combine their strength to overturn the SUV. As they’re struggling to get it tipped back onto its wheels, a final person comes running and pushes, providing just enough energy to make sure it goes in the right direction.
As the police department says in its Facebook post, “this is the spirit of Daytona Beach.” We hope every community has this kind of spirit to help someone in need.
You’ll note in the video not everyone stopped to help. Some people just drove on by the accident. We don’t know why they did. Perhaps they had little children with them, they were shocked and didn’t know what to do, or they were calling 911 to report the crash. But it’s great there were others who jumped out of their vehicles to help.
Image via Daytona Beach Police Department/Facebook
