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Rescuer credits strength of spirit with
helping him move SUV off crash victim
BY KIMBERLY MARTIN
Quill Staff Writer
The Quill has helped an auto accident victim find the man who played a big part in her rescue. Sharon Cypher of West Plains came to The Quill newsroom recently to say she knew his first name was Ray and that she wanted to meet him face-to-face to thank him. That message was delivered in a Quill article on Nov. 23, 2005.
He’s been found; he’s Ray Fuselier of West Plains, and he had helped Cypher from the wreckage of her vehicle following a crash in April 2005.
He told The Quill he was on his way to town to meet his sister and he saw a car pull onto the highway about three-quarters of a mile ahead, then lost sight of it around a curve. Soon, he started seeing debris along the highway, and thought it must have been from an accident that had happened much earlier.
Then he saw an SUV overturned off the left side of the road, stopped to help and heard a woman’s voice coming from underneath the vehicle. Fuselier admitted he was scared as he approached and saw the woman pinned from the chest down. He tried to push the SUV off her, then turned around and pushed with his back toward the vehicle for more leverage, both times with no success.
Frustrated and angry, he said he spoke the words “God, help me,” and on the third try was able to lift the SUV off her. But he immediately realized he had a new problem. He was alone and couldn’t pull her out from under the wreck without letting go of the vehicle. “I didn’t know what I was going to do, but wasn’t about to do that,” he said. “It was like I saw my mom under there. She was about the same age.” (Fuselier said his mother died about seven years ago.) Luckily, Cypher had enough strength to push herself out, and Fuselier held her in his lap until the ambulance came. Her scalp from about the eyebrows was torn off and one of her eyes was badly injured, he said.
A passing feed truck stopped and the driver, having no blanket, offered a tarp to cover Cypher until an ambulance came. “I didn’t want anyone else to see what I was seeing,” Fuselier said. “I just kept telling her to hang in there, and
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helping him move SUV off crash victim
BY KIMBERLY MARTIN
Quill Staff Writer
The Quill has helped an auto accident victim find the man who played a big part in her rescue. Sharon Cypher of West Plains came to The Quill newsroom recently to say she knew his first name was Ray and that she wanted to meet him face-to-face to thank him. That message was delivered in a Quill article on Nov. 23, 2005.
He’s been found; he’s Ray Fuselier of West Plains, and he had helped Cypher from the wreckage of her vehicle following a crash in April 2005.
He told The Quill he was on his way to town to meet his sister and he saw a car pull onto the highway about three-quarters of a mile ahead, then lost sight of it around a curve. Soon, he started seeing debris along the highway, and thought it must have been from an accident that had happened much earlier.
Then he saw an SUV overturned off the left side of the road, stopped to help and heard a woman’s voice coming from underneath the vehicle. Fuselier admitted he was scared as he approached and saw the woman pinned from the chest down. He tried to push the SUV off her, then turned around and pushed with his back toward the vehicle for more leverage, both times with no success.
Frustrated and angry, he said he spoke the words “God, help me,” and on the third try was able to lift the SUV off her. But he immediately realized he had a new problem. He was alone and couldn’t pull her out from under the wreck without letting go of the vehicle. “I didn’t know what I was going to do, but wasn’t about to do that,” he said. “It was like I saw my mom under there. She was about the same age.” (Fuselier said his mother died about seven years ago.) Luckily, Cypher had enough strength to push herself out, and Fuselier held her in his lap until the ambulance came. Her scalp from about the eyebrows was torn off and one of her eyes was badly injured, he said.
A passing feed truck stopped and the driver, having no blanket, offered a tarp to cover Cypher until an ambulance came. “I didn’t want anyone else to see what I was seeing,” Fuselier said. “I just kept telling her to hang in there, and
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the rest here http://www.westplainsquill.com/index.html
