UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 21, Page 10
February 23, 1995
Student offers emergency first-aid to accident victim

     Daniel Hall, a freshman from Milford, is the Good Samaritan in
disguise to Suzanne Wood.
     She was driving home from work along the Kirkwood Highway the
evening of Jan. 30 when she was hit by another car, ending up in a
four-car collision.
     Hall drove by the scene of the accident shortly after it happened
and stopped to see if he could help. A former life guard at the Dover
Air Force Base, he is qualified to give first aid.
     Someone told him a woman had been hurt and when he crossed the
street to talk to her, he learned that she had sustained head and neck
injuries. Because of the accident, Hall had to climb through the
smashed back window of her vehicle to get into the car. Being careful
not to disturb her or move her in any way, he stayed with her until
help arrived.
     As children were involved in the accident, they were taken to the
hospital first, Hall said. It was a while before another ambulance
could be dispatched to the scene.
     "I can't tell you how much it meant to me," Wood said. "He held
my head and kept talking to me for an hour or more. It was freezing,
and we were both cold."
     "We talked a lot," Hall said. "I wanted to make sure she stayed
awake, kept her mind focused and that her breathing was okay."
     When the paramedics came, Hall helped them remove Wood from her
car and sent her on her way to the hospital and eventual  recovery.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure