Good Samarita experience life -saving efforts in car accidents in which 8 victims were killed

Lane, Kan. – On Sunday evening, a car wreck killed in rural Franklin County, Kansas, eight people and injured one.

Numerous good Samaritators got into the crisis to help.

Before the authorities published the victim's identity, Nathan Schwarz, the owner of Schwarz General & Feed Store, offered to help the victim's families.

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“I published a Facebook post … We didn't know who it was but to let us know and we would find a way to help everyone who needed it,” said Schwarz.

“Lord, please help”: Good Samarita experience life -saving efforts in car accidents in which 8 victims were killed

He added that there were numerous emergency calls on the two -lane route of the US 169 Highway near Lane.

A crash of this size is something you have never seen before.

“You see it in the news,” said Schwarz. “You see Kansas City has all the time like this, but not here on this highway.”

South of Lane, Joshua Strutton decreased his Neeice north of Garnett, Kansas.

He arrived at a cloud of smoke near the crash site, which he said KSHB 41, his wife thought a grass fire.

“It was far from one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life,” he said.

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Strutton told KSHB 41 that his motivation to help was spiritual.

When he arrived, he parked about 75 feet from the scene.

He spoke to other spectators and they grabbed water bottles to bring the flames out.

“It just seemed impossible,” he said. “I just prayed to God that he would send a rain down to buy us a little more time so that the fire brigade from Greeley arrives.”

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In addition to others, they began to disassemble the vehicles as well as they could. Without the right equipment and many of the victims who were seriously injured, he hope that he could save the participants.

“I felt like a coward … as if I was doing more,” he added. “I really prayed for the families … for the boy who wakes up in the hospital without family members or a trainer.”

In Strutton's efforts to protect the victim, he lives with the fault.

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“That made it clear to me what I have in life,” he said. “If I can still do something to help the victims, which I can't help with money, I will do it. Even to speak to the 15-year-old who has lost his loved ones … Everything to take this load off their shoulders.”

Strutton plans to be immersed in his work and family. He understands that this traumatic experience will live with him forever and hopes that his children will make the jump with a day to help others need the most.

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“It is exactly what everyone should do,” he said.

As for the rest of the rural Miami, Franklin and Anderson County communities that mourn this tragedy in their backyards, KSHB 41 tell the willingness to help a neighbor in his DNA.

“From the beginning to today, the neighbors help neighbors, friends who help friends, strangers who help strangers,” said Schwarz.