Woman Critical After Lucky Rescue
Coincidence led to the rescue of a woman who lay injured under her car after it ran off the road and over an embankment, landing out of sight of the highway.
Another motorist ran out of gas Thursday at the spot where Pamela Carter’s car left the Bluegrass Parkway hours earlier.
“And when he got out . . . he heard sounds like moaning,” police dispatcher Melanie Creekmore said.
The man looked over the guardrail and thought he saw something in the darkness and climbed down to find Carter, the dispatcher said.
Carter, 28, was in critical condition Thursday after being airlifted to University Hospital in Louisville, 35 miles to the north.
State police identified the passing motorist as Steve Campbell, a soldier stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., who was returning home to Radcliff, Ky., for Thanksgiving.
“Of all the places for him to run out of gas--to me it’s just incredible,” Creekmore said.
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