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Taxi driver rescues

		Andrew Norfolk				“I could see someone screaming
						and banging on the window. It was
		A woman trapped upside down in a				like a scene from a horror film.”
		sinking car was rescued by a taxi				The door was jammed and the
		driver who ignored warnings from				window would not open, so Mr
		the emergency services that it was				Brown, after trying to reassure the
		too dangerous for him to enter the				terrified Miss Saunders, flagged
		freezing water.				down a passing motorist, who
		James Brown, 41, was driving				found a [id:62882] in the back of his
		along an icy road shortly before				car.
		midnight when he spotted the				“I went back with it. I shouted
		headlights of a Ford Ka half-				to her and she said she was the
		submerged in a duck pond in				only one in the car. I was just so
		Bishop Burton, East Yorkshire.				[id:62883] that she was talking to me.
		Inside was Caroline Saunders,				smashed the window before
		28, a social worker, who had				dragging the girl out. She was very
		skidded on black ice and lost				shaken up, but at least she got
		control of her car. The car had				out.”
		crashed through a fence and				Mr Brown, a self-employed taxi
		flipped on to its roof before landing				driver for the past six years, who
		in the water, leaving her [id:62880] .				has one child, carried Miss
		Mr Brown did not realise that				Saunders from the pond and put
		anyone was still in the car until he				her in his car with a blanket around
		dialled 999 on his mobile phone				her.
		and began speaking to a fire				[id:62884] emergency services
		service controller. Only then did he				reached the pond in the early
		spot Miss Saunders inside the				hours of yesterday, she was taken
		upside-down vehicle.				to hospital and discharged after
		Though the controller at the				treatment for shock, cuts and
		other end of the phone urged him				bruises.
		not to risk his life by attempting a				Miss Saunders, who was
		rescue, Mr Brown said he could				driving home from work when the
		see that the car was filling with				accident happened, said she had
		water and he decided that the				felt certain she was going to die.
		emergency services would not				“It’s midnight, there’s no one
		[id:62881] .				around and I’m trapped, I can’t get
		“Another ten minutes and she				out. I saw some headlights and
		would have died. I put down the				I was beeping my horn, banging on
		phone and went in. The car was				the window, thinking, ‘Please see
		sinking down and half the car was				me, please see me’.” She said that
		underwater already,” he said.				her message to Mr Brown was:
						“Thank you, thank you so much for
						just being there and being good
						enough to [id:62885].”








						A fire service spokesman said
						that Mr Brown had performed an
						exceptional rescue that had
						averted a potentially [id:62886]
						incident.

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