An Arkansas truck driver has been recognized for his actions at the scene of a rollover crash.
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) recently named truck driver Terry Pearson, from Southside, Arkansas, a TCA Highway Angel for stopping to rescue a woman who flipped her vehicle. Pearson works for FirstFleet, Inc. out of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
TCA explains:
On Oct. 27, around 11:15 a.m., Pearson was traveling on Interstate 40 near the Clarksville, Arkansas, exit. He witnessed a serious accident involving one vehicle.
“I was behind her and she just lost control,” he said. “She rolled her vehicle.”
Pearson pulled over and ran to the overturned vehicle to discover a woman trapped in the car. She had some cuts and bruises from the crash.
“I had to cut her out of the seatbelt,” Pearson said. “She was hanging upside down. She was hollering ‘get me out of here!’”
Pearson, a trucker for over 25 years, stayed with the crash victim until emergency personnel arrived.
“I have family and if something happened to one of them I would like for someone to stop to make sure everybody is OK,” he said, explaining why he stopped at the scene.
Since the TCA Highway Angel program’s inception in August 1997, nearly 1,400 professional truck drivers have been recognized as TCA Highway Angels for exemplary kindness, courtesy, and courage displayed while on the job. Thanks to the program’s presenting sponsor, EpicVue, and supporting sponsors, DriverFacts and Northland Insurance, TCA is able to showcase outstanding drivers like Pearson.
