MADISON COUNTY, Ind. — A state police trooper saved a man’s life during a traffic stop in Madison County on the Fourth of July.
Trooper Ron Huff pulled over a pick-up truck with it’s hazard lights flashing that was going 105 mph on State Road 37. The driver jumped out of the car, run up to Huff’s cruiser and said his friend was dying.
Huff grabbed his first aid kit and found a man holding a bloody shop towel up to his neck in the passenger seat. Huff called an ambulance before discovering the man had a 4-inch gash on his neck from a piece of glass that just missed his artery.
Huff applied pressure with combat gauze that’s treated with a clotting agent to help stop the bleeding. EMT’s got there and took the man to a hospital..
ISP said the man was injured while doing renovations to a nearby school. He told troopers he was removing a mirror from a wall when it broke sending a shard of glass into his neck.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, was treated and released form the hospital the next day.
(PHOTO: Indiana State Police/WIBC)
