
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) named truck driver Kingsley Ogieva, from Saskatoon, Sask., a Highway Angel for stopping to help a trucker trapped in his rolled vehicle on the highway. Ogieva drives for XTL Transport out of Airdrie, Alta.
On Nov. 27, 2024, around 7:30 a.m. in Bowden, Alta., Ogieva was driving along Hwy. 2. He noticed a tractor-trailer rolled over, blocking nearly the entire southbound highway.

“When I passed through, I saw that the driver was stuck in his truck and wasn’t able to come out,” Ogieva said. He parked his truck safely and went to assist.
The trapped driver was kicking at the windshield, unable to free himself from his truck. Ogieva and another bystander climbed onto the truck and began prying the windshield away.
“We tried to look for how to break his windshield so he could come out,” Ogieva said. “While we were trying to get the windshield out, from nowhere we heard a big bang.”
Legs pinned in secondary crash
A cattle hauler had struck the truck, which trapped Kingsley. His legs were pinned.
“I was really in pain; I was screaming,” Ogieva said. He saw diesel spilling onto the floor. “I was screaming, telling everybody they should not smoke or come with anything that could trigger a fire,” he said.
Ogieva waited for emergency responders. He was calmed by another trucker praying with him. Eventually, emergency service personnel arrived and lifted the truck up so Ogieva could be extracted. Miraculously, he had no broken bones.
Reflecting on the event, Ogieva said he would stop if it happened again, but would do some things differently.
“I would stop and use my truck as a shield to make sure that oncoming traffic is aware of the situation in front before going to help,” he said. “That day, I saw another driver in distress, and I knew he needed my help. If we were not there to help him, it could have been worse.”
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