US EditionVan Orden and roadside warriors save 11 year old
Congressman Van Orden, a retired Navy SEAL combat medic, used makeshift tourniquets and coordinated with about 10 bystanders to stabilize an 11-year-old boy before paramedics arrived.
- On Saturday, Rep. Derrick Van Orden and bystanders rescued 11-year-old Sawyer Whitt, critically injured after a crash on Interstate-35 near Osceola, Iowa.
- Iowa State Police said a minivan struck a semi-trailer parked on the shoulder while re-entering lanes, and a 41-year-old woman, the driver, is suspected of impairment with an OWI drug investigation underway.
- With the boy's leg and wrist bleeding heavily, Van Orden retrieved two pairs of socks from his suitcase to make makeshift tourniquets while about 10 strangers joined the rescue and first responders arrived within 15 minutes.
- Bystanders stabilized the boy, Sawyer Whitt, who was loaded into an ambulance and airlifted to Des Moines hospitals; Van Orden visited him on Monday, with Sawyer stable by Tuesday.
- Van Orden, who visited the boy in the hospital on Monday, told him the crash day was his `alive day` and credited the cooperation of strangers during the rescue.
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