Trucker Sees Toddler Stranded on Busy Median and Becomes a Hero

As a dad, he knew he had to check it out. “Did kind of a U-turn real quick to go back and see what was going on, and noticed there was a little kid standing on the median,” Ed said. The Truck Driver Was About to Become a Hero Ed Coleman set out to do his job as a truck driver that day, not to be a hero, but things took a turn very quickly.

“All I cared about was get him in the truck and get him safe,” Ed explained to KETV. “Just thinking about my kids at home, like, what would you know? I do in this situation if it happened to my kids? And I just, yeah, I mean, if you watched the video really closely, you can tell I started getting emotional in the video.” He and another witness both got out of their cars and called 911 for help.

Ed put the child in his truck to warm him, and the other witness gave him a blanket. They waited for the police to arrive and watched cartoons together. Ed takes that route regularly and is in the right place at the right time. “That is my normal route.

I kind of diverted off a little bit from where I normally run from one stop to the next stop, and I don’t really know what pulled me that way,” Ed said. The truck driver told KETV he would have been a hero no matter what. Thankfully, police reunited the child with his parents, but Ed was ready to do whatever he had to. “If they couldn’t find the parents, I didn’t want him to actually go into the system or whatever,” Ed said.

“Me and the wife would have found some way of trying to help the kid out that we could.” This story’s featured image can be found here.