Dashcam Footage Captures Trooper Saving Life Of Man After Accident

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Highway Patrolman Eric Devers arrives on the scene of a crash to render first aid to a man who had stopped breathing. Devers’ actions saved the man’s life.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol recently released dashcam footage of Trooper Eric Devers’ arrival on the scene of a highway accident that occurred in April. 

Devers rushes out of his car to help the commercial driver who he finds seatbelted into the cab of the fallen truck. 

The driver was barely breathing with his eyelids halfway closed. 

Soon he slumps over and stops breathing entirely.

Devers screams at the man—the emotion rising through his voice—to stay with him, to keep breathing and not to die. 

Following a series of counted-out chest compressions, Devers is able to bring the man back and