30 Men Lift Bus Off Pregnant Woman to Save Baby

[thebobman]

FULL STORY @ YAHOO NEWS

Originally Posted by uk.news.yahoo.com

NEW YORK (AFP) - About 30 men lifted a schoolbus to save a pregnant woman struck by the bus, enabling the baby to be born before the woman died of her injuries, the New York Post said Friday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid tribute to the victim, Donnette Sanz, 33, a traffic cop who was off duty when she was hit Thursday by the bus in the city's Bronx section.

"It is a terrible poignancy that Donnette's son's birthday will now coincide with the day his mother died. She gave her life in service to our city," the mayor said.

"A superhuman effort by 30 strangers who lifted the vehicle off her body miraculously saved her baby before she died," the New York Post said.

"We did not really communicate, we all just started lifting. We lifted it up and someone pulled her out," Madalina Diaz, 42, told the paper.

The woman, six months pregnant, was rushed to the hospital, where the baby was born by caesarian section a few minutes before she died.

[Krusha]

ok i dunno if anyone else will spot this but it says the poor lady was struck off duty yet bloomberg goes off about how she gave her life in service to the city

um dude, she was off duty


isn't it great when politicians spit out jargon lines that sound cool but in retrospect make zero sense

[sNyx]

good to hear some positive bus stories these days :p

[fritz]

giving your life in service generally means you worked for a majority of your life at said job

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by Krusha

ok i dunno if anyone else will spot this but it says the poor lady was struck off duty yet bloomberg goes off about how she gave her life in service to the city

um dude, she was off duty


isn't it great when politicians spit out jargon lines that sound cool but in retrospect make zero sense

bloomberg is the man, he can say whatever he wants