On Sunday afternoon, a 41-year-old woman was driving her Harley Davidson motorcycle on Ohio 13 south of Dawes Arboretum when she apparently lost control of the motorcycle while she was rounding a curve. She crashed into a 2006 Honda Odyssey van, suffered serious injuries, and needed to be rushed to Ohio State University Medical Center via emergency medical helicopter.

She is still in the hospital, recovering from her critical injuries sustained in the motorcycle accident. Emergency medical responders believe that her injuries were so severe that she might not have even made it to the hospital if it were not for the actions of an unknown Good Samaritan who helped her at the scene.

First responders told the woman's husband that if she had not had a tourniquet placed on her arm, she would have only had a few minutes to live. Her husband, who had been riding alongside of her, reported that a man seemingly came from nowhere, took his shirt off, wrapped the shirt around the injured woman's arm and then left just as mysteriously as he had arrived.

As of yesterday morning, the injured woman has gone through several surgeries and needed to have her arm amputated above the elbow. Nevertheless, she has had her breathing tubes removed and is breathing on her own.

Now, the woman's family would like to meet the man who placed the tourniquet on her arm and saved her life. If it were not for his quick thinking and heroic action, this motorcycle accident could have easily been a fatal one.

Source: Newark Advocate, "Hebron woman's family wants to say thanks," Abbey Roy, 6/16/2011