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Brian Snell, who aided
woman in wrong-way
crash, named Highway
Angel of the Year
Being named a Highway Angel was
an honor, Snell said. When he heard
he had been named Highway Angel
of the Year, he was “ecstatic,” but he
admitted he’s had mixed emotions
because of the circumstances around
the incident.
The woman in the first car was
intoxicated at the time of the crash.
She has been charged with vehicular
homicide.
“It’s a very bittersweet award to
accept,” Snell said. “I’m literally being
honored for saving someone who
killed somebody.
“Hopefully, she changes her ways.”
he said.
The Highway Angel of the Year
was created to honor those drivers
who best embody the spirit of the
Highway Angel program. Snell, 50, has
been doing rescue work of one kind
or another, both professionally and
as a volunteer, since he was on the
American Red Cross Disaster Team in
high school. That’s roughly 35 years of
putting himself on the line to help others.
He’s even delivered a baby along
the roadside.
Putting yourself out there for your
fellow human beings is simply part of
the values by which he was raised.
“My whole family is community driven,”
he said.
“The Lord has always told everybody
he wants us to be the Good
Samaritan, and I don’t pass that up.
Anybody I can help, I try to do anything
I can for them.”
“Brian’s just a great, unique person,” Pottle
said. “He’s just calm, and cool and collected
and he just has a way about him that he can
just maintain himself and get the job done.
He’s a great driver, he’s a great family man,
and I think what he did that morning, was
unbelievable.”
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