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Around 7:15 a.m. June
17, 2023, Paul Pellerito of
The Villages, Florida, was
driving in San Antonio. As he
entered the Interstate 10 onramp
from Interstate 35, he
saw a man just off the road,
frantically waving for him to
stop. Pellerito then spotted a
crashed motorcycle, which Paul Pellerito
belonged to the man, on the
road about 50 feet ahead.
Pellerito, along with another passerby, stopped to
help the man, who had not been wearing a motorcycle
helmet and had sustained obvious injuries to his head
and leg.
PAUL PELLERITO
Melton Truck Lines
Tulsa, Oklahoma
“We dragged him off the highway to the side of the
road,” Pellerito said. “I saw that he was cut up and
bleeding pretty bad on his face and his lip, so I ran to
my truck and got him a towel to put pressure there.”
Pellerito, a 20-year Navy veteran who has been driving
a truck for just a year, also called 911 and got a
pillow from his truck. The pillow was used to elevate
the head of the crash victim, once he was persuaded
to lie down on the side of the road. Pellerito communicated
with the emergency responders on the phone
until EMS arrived on the scene.
“It was somebody in despair,” he said. “He was
frantically waving — when you see somebody like
that, you just have to do the right thing. It’s a pay it
forward type deal.”
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