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Atlanta man rescues a woman driver who was trapped in flood water

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 23 May

Atlanta Georgia resident George Brathwaite was inside his auto on Wednesday evening when the roads in Atlanta were flooded due to the heavy rains that hit the area. George at the advice of his wife left his auto that was in...

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Students save the life of a bus driver who passed out behind the wheel

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 3 May

Students who were coming home from Hanock Middle School in Mississippi are being praised as heroes for their actions of saving their bus driver Leah Taylor who passed out while she was driving due to her having an asthma attack on...

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Firefighters rescue a woman driver who was involved in an auto accident

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 21 Apr

Firefighters with the Isle Of Wight Fire Rescue in Virginia answered an emergency call on Sunday afternoon when a woman driver crashed into a utility pole which trapped the woman driver inside her sports utility vehicle...

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Dianne Riussini rescues a man and his dog who were in an auto accident

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Apr

Dianne Russini who was a sport reporter with The Atlantic was with her husband Kevin Goldschmidt and their children in Wycoff New Jersey when a senior man was driving with his dog when a 17 year old driver who was driving a Honda...

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Firefighters rescue eight ducklings who were in a storm drain

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 5 Apr

Thanks to the actions of a driver who stopped his or her auto on Thursday evening near the Laguna Miguel Shopping Center in Orange County California when a mom duck was asking anyone for help since eight of her ducklings were...

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I didn't expect that!

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 2 Apr

I mentioned a while ago that I was teaching Big One to drive, and that I had a few magnetic ‘L’ plates ready to stick on the car when she was driving. Well we have recently been forced to get a different car (a very long story!)...

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Firefighters rescue a man who was trapped inside of a truck that was in an accident

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 30 Mar

A driver whose gender was not released was involved in a truck accident on Saturday when he was indeed of a pickup truck and needed to be rescued. Central Bell Fire and Rescue arrived on scene around 16 minutes later and with the...

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Bystander rescues a trapped driver who was inside of an auto accident

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 23 Mar

A bystander assisted a driver who was driving his or her auto on Indian Creek Road in Chesapeake Virginia on Wednesday drove the auto into a culvert. The gender of the bystander was not released to the public entered into the...

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Rideshare driver rescues a toddler who was wandering on a street

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 22 Mar

Michelle Gallegos who is a zTrip rideshare driver in San Antonio Texas is being praised as a savior when she was driving her auto on Tuesday March 10 when she saw a young boy who was wandering on a busy road when she stopped her...

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Lost one – but found two!

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 4 Feb

Our eldest daughter, known here as ‘Big One’, is learning to drive a car. So yesterday when she needed to go to the railway station I suggested she could drive herself there. We have magnetic ‘L’ plates (a requirement for learner...

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Bus driver and students escape a burning bus

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 6 Dec

Passengers who were aboard a school bus in Springville in New York on Friday morning are grateful to be alive when the school bus was going toward Springville Griffith Institute had the actions of the bus driver stopped the bus...

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Firefighters rescue a man who drove a go-kart in a hole in Texas

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 23 Nov

A male driver that drove a go-kart at night on Tuesday November 18 in Beaumont Texas needed to be rescued after the go-kart fell into a hole on a road that had been closed for about three weeks due to a drainage repair...

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Stranger assists a man who was trapped inside of a burning auto

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 10 Nov

David Calderon who along with the assistance of another stranger was at the right place at the right time on Friday afternoon November 7 in Clearwater Florida when a man who was inside his auto that caught fire. David who was...

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Short story: Road users are the worst kind of animals. Driving rage.

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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Off duty firefighter rescues a driver who was inside of an auto that was on fire

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 Sep

St. Bernard Parish Firefighter Andrew Nixon was off duty on Saturday September 20 when he was with his fiancé traveling from a wedding when he took action to rescue a woman driver who was involved in a collision with an 18 wheeler...

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FedEx driver rescues an injured owl in Pennsylvania

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 14 Jul

A FedEx driver named Justin was working on delivering packages on Friday July 11 in Lancaster County Pennsylvania when he saw an injured owl on a road. Justin drove his truck to the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center when he placed the...

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And one more thing

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 11 May 25

Another thing that I find annoying – and this certainly isn’t limited to electric cars – is that manufacturers seem to be competing to produce the most-easily-dropped car keys. I’m always a bit paranoid, especially if I park on...

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Siblings in Florida collecting cereal to feed needy people

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 19 Mar 25

I like the way that twin siblings Jett and Luke Justin are making a difference in Boca Raton Florida by having a drive called Cereal4All which is going to feed persons in their community called Boca Helping Hands. The Justin...

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More about unwanted features

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 12 Mar 25

This follows on from my post about annoying features in my car… The one thing I can’t resolve in our now-shared car, is that with this car, you can’t open the boot (trunk) just by lifting the catch in the ‘old-fashioned’ way –...

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A wish list – or is it a not-wish list?

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 12 Mar 25

The car I had twenty years ago had few ‘modern’ features. It had wind-up windows, an air-bag for the driver, and no annoying alarms. The doors were unlocked by putting the key in the lock. When that one was sadly written off by...

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