Crime & Safety

Rochester Community Members Team Up to Help Aid Accident Victim

It happened Sunday at the Rochester Cider Mill.

A t-bone car crash just outside of the Rochester Cider Mill on Sunday quickly turned into an example of community teamwork.

An elderly woman was on her way to visit her husband's gravesite when she was struck from the side right outside the mill, on Rochester Road, south of Snell, said Lydia Lohrer, who witnessed the accident.

"One car was heading north and the other south, and when she was struck, she went airborne and ended up in a ditch," Lohrer said. "She was stuck in there, upside down."

Lohrer and her husband, Hugger Elementary School principal Patrick Bevier, had been enjoying a day out when they saw the accident and tended to the woman's care before emergency medical service staff arrived. Bevier, together with a Pontiac resident named Corry Denham, pulled the woman from her car. 

"We didn't know each other, but people were working together to take care of people before the sheriffs and EMS got there," Lohrer said.

Lohrer said that she held the woman's hand to reassure her before she was transported for medical care. "(The accident victim) said her biggest concern was for her daughter, because she knew how concerned she would be," she said.

In addition to a sense of assurance, Lohrer said, each of the two men who helped pull the woman from her car received a dozen doughnuts for free, courtesy of Rochester Cider Mill.


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