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Monday, September 6, 2010

Motorist Assist on I-35

I left my church at 12:15 pm and proceeded south bound on I-35. I looked over to the northbound side at around the SE.44th St exit and noticed two vehicles on the side of the interstate with their emergency flashers on. I also noticed that there were two young females by the cars. I pulled off at the next exit (SE.59th St) and got back on the interstate going north bound. As I approached the vehicles, I turned on my front strobe and my back strobes and safely pulled onto the shoulder. As I approached the two young ladies, one of them was attempting to use the jack. They were in shorts and I was in jeans, so I took the wrench from one of the females and proceeded to jack the vehicle up. Once I got the lug nuts off and took off the tire, I noticed the tire was blown out and was no good. They advised me they had no spare and was having to go buy a new tire. So, I loaded the blown out tire in the back seat of the other car, along with the hubcaps and lug nuts. I advised them to make sure they had someone come back with them to assist in putting the tire back on. They had big smiles and thanked me for stopping. I waited until they pulled onto the interstate and then I pulled on, turning off my emergency strobes.

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