A Car Was Teetering on the Edge of a 50-Foot Drop When Strangers Stepped in to Help

It was surge hour on the morning of June 1 in the West Texas city of San Angelo. Heather Santellano, 36, was driving her white 2012 Mazda on Houston Harte Frontage Road with her nine-year-old little girl and ten-year-old child in the back. All of a sudden, a red pickup truck cut them off. �Santellano turned the wheel hard to one side, sending the Mazda sliding off the street and down a bank that finished in a drop-off after around 50 feet. On the off chance that the vehicle didn't stop, it would go airborne and dive onto the street exactly 20 feet beneath. At that point a touch of karma: As the vehicle hustled toward the edge, its under�carriage stalled out on the concrete lip of the bank edge, halting it cold. 

The inhabitants, nonetheless, were a long way from safe. The vehicle had stopped over a holding divider, truly wavering on the edge of fiasco. One abrupt move by anybody inside could send it over. 

Jacob Rodriguez viewed the scene unfurl from the truck-adornments organization where he works. A veteran, he murmured a Navy mantra: "Ship, shipmates, self," at that point he and four other men hurried to the vehicle. They jumped onto the storage compartment to adjust the weight as the alarmed children in the rearward sitting arrangement viewed. 

In the interim, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were heading to their positions at close-by Premier Automotive. Julio bounced out of the vehicle to help while Marco went to the shop, snatched a rock solid lash, and came back to the dangling vehicle. He fastened the Mazda to a F-350 truck that had been rolled over by one of alternate rescuers. With the vehicle verified, the gathering cautiously opened the secondary passages and bailed the kids out. 

In any case, their takeoff moved the vehicle's weight, making it tilt forward. The men, still on the storage compartment, entreated Santellano to hop into the rearward sitting arrangement to rebalance the weight. She did and afterward crept out the secondary passage. At last, the men cautiously got off the storage compartment. Everybody was protected. "Another foot," Rodriguez disclosed to USA Today, "and this would be an alternate story." Read about the things you ought to do directly after you get into an auto collision.