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April 22, 2008

Trio pulls woman, toddler from car in Coventry brook

COVENTRY -- Three Good Samaritans teamed up this morning to rescue an older female driver and her toddler passenger who were trapped in a vehicle that veered off Fish Hill Road, flipped over and landed upside down in a brook, the police said today.

When police arrived on the scene sometime after 10 a.m., the driver, a 66-year-old Coventry woman, was floating in the 3 ½ -foot deep water and supported by Shamus Horan, who held her head above water, according to Sgt. John Shields. Horan was aided by neighbor Bonnie Fogarty and Linda Bokorser, who held a 2-year-old girl.

Police say that Horan -- who is a Station nightclub survivor -- administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the woman before rescue crews arrived, but she was not fully alert when crews transported her to Kent County Hospital. The toddler, who police believe is the woman’s granddaughter, was not hurt, but taken to Hasbro’s Children Hospital in Providence.

Horan, a resident of the Fish Hill Road area, was passing by and heard the distress calls and saw the vehicle, which lay roof-side down in the brook, and waded into the water to investigate, according to a police report.

He rescued the toddler from the vehicle and passed the child to Bokorser, who had pulled over in her car when she saw the vehicle in the brook. Next, Horan got the woman out of the vehicle with help from Fogarty, who was driving on Fish Hill Road and stopped. By that time, Officer David Tucker had arrived to help Horan and Fogarty bring the woman to shore.

-- Journal staff writer Lisa Vernon-Sparks

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