A sergeant in Volusia County, Florida, performed roadside CPR to save an unconscious truck driver on Interstate 95, on Wednesday, June 14.
Sergeant Brian Walsh noticed a dump truck running off the road and when he approached it he found the driver slumped over the wheel, the sheriff’s office said. Walsh’s bodycam video shows him pulling the driver out of the truck and performing CPR until the paramedics arrived.
The paramedics were able to get a pulse on the way to the hospital and the driver was recovering, the sheriff’s office said. Credit: Volusia Sheriff’s Office via Storyful
Video transcript
[KNOCKING]
BRIAN WALSH: Sheriff’s Office. Hey, man, you OK? Hey. Hey. You OK? Hey. Hey, bud, you good? You good? You good? I’m going to need rescue code 3. I’m going to start CPR. Hey, bud! 20 central, CPR started. Hey, you coming back to me? Hey, right here. Hey, Sergeant Walsh, Sheriff’s Office. Get back to me. Come on, man. You’re OK. You’re OK. You’re going to make it, bud. Did you take any drugs? Did you take any drugs?
– [BREATHING SOUNDS]
BRIAN WALSH: Stay with me, man. Come on, buddy, stay with me. 20 central, I got him breathing, but he’s not responding. So, yeah, I still need them here code 3. Because he’s agonal breathing. I don’t see any narcotics. Just for cats. So Narcan has not been deployed. There’s nothing to suggest narcotics.
DISPATCH: Copy.
BRIAN WALSH: You’re OK. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. You’re OK. Keep breathing. Keep breathing! Keep breathing, man. Come on. Stay with me. Stay with me, man. You’re OK. You’re going to make it. You’re OK. Come on. Keep breathing.
[TRAFFIC HUM]
Keep breathing. Keep breathing. You’re good. The ambulance is going to be here. And They’re going to get you out of here. OK? You’re good. You’re good. I got you. My name’s Brian Walsh, OK? I’m with the Sheriff’s Office if you can understand me. All right. You’re going to be good. Keep breathing. Keep breathing.
– [BREATHES]
BRIAN WALSH: Keep breathing for me, buddy. Keep breathing. There you go. Good job. Good job, man, good job. Good job. Keep breathing. Keep breathing, man. We’re going to make it through this together, OK? We’re going to be OK. We’re going to be OK. We’re going to get through this, man. We’re going to get through it. You’re OK. We’re going to make it through this. Come on. Keep breathing. Will you hold him for a second? I got him back now.
– That’s our guy now.
BRIAN WALSH: I do, but there’s no signs of drugs. I mean, I don’t know if we need to deploy it or not. He’s breathing. It doesn’t look like an OD, really. Come on, man, stay with us. Is he breathing? Yeah, OK. I don’t want to lose the dude. I brought him back like three times.
– Is that where he was at?
BRIAN WALSH: I pulled him out. Dude, he was [BLEEP] hitting the guardrail going down the highway.
– Get him on the backboard, and get him over.
– So about 20 minutes?
BRIAN WALSH: 20 minutes. But I had him with me most of the time. He only went out once.
[TRAFFIC HUM]
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