A truck driver is lucky to be alive after getting trapped in his overturned vehicle. The incident happened in Atlanta. The driver got pinned under the vehicle. But two bystanders managed to rescue him. Following the incident, the truck driver says that he has a new lease on life.
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"It just shook my soul, and it made me alive," Paris Thompson, the driver, told NBC affiliate WXIA. "So, I'm about to live, not just be alive."
The incident happened on May 28. The truck driver had been driving near Cascade Road and the Cascade Skating Rink when he crashed his truck. Thompson says he has no memory of what happened. He regained consciousness while trapped and realized that the truck had overturned.
It was a rude awakening for the truck river.
"The only thing I can remember is just kind of waking up in a panic mode," Thompson told WXIA. "Luckily I was conscious enough to stay with the situation long enough to where I'm still here."
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Fortunately for Thompson, bystanders saw the crash and came to help. Mikeal Collins and Joshua Moses sprang into action to help Thompson.
"I heard the voice of somebody screaming — a man that's screaming for their life," Moses previously told WXIA.
Moses and Collins were able to find a car jack. This allowed them to help free the truck driver from the overturned vehicle. "Everybody played a part in it, and I just really wanted to make sure he was safe getting that pressure off his head," Collins told WSB.
Following the accident, Thompson was more than a week at the intensive care unit at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital. He suffered injuries to his neck and needed neck surgery as a result.
Thompson also told WXIA, "I have pretty bad road rash to where it's down to the skin."
He's very thankful to all those who came to his assistance.
"Mike, Josh, and the Dark Soldier, my soldiers, thank y'all. I love y'all," Thompson said. "I can't wait to meet y'all."
