Juan Mendoza didn’t think twice when he stopped to help rescue a retired couple from their car after they were hit on the highway.
Juan Mendoza, 19, was driving with his girlfriend on a rainy Wednesday afternoon in southern Texas when he noticed a car spinning out and stopped in the middle of the highway after a collision. Without thinking twice, he jumped into action.
« My first thought is that they could have kids, and I have little brothers », Menodoza said. « And that thought came into me, rushing, and I’m like, I’m going to get them out. »
Juan O’Matta, who turns 80 this month, was driving home from a doctor’s appointment with his wife Adriana when their car was struck and sent spinning into the middle of the road.
« Nobody stopped », O’Matta said of Mendoza’s action. « He was the only one who stopped.
