Metrobus driver among dozen 'heroes' given life-saving awards by St. John Ambulance
A Metrobus driver who jumped to the aid of an injured pedestrian is among the dozen Newfoundlanders and Labradorians being honoured with life-saving awards on Thursday.
Max Benson, who used first aid to help a St. John's woman after she was hit by a car on Water Street last year, received a Gold Life-Saving Award from St. John ambulance.
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Benson left his bus, manoeuvred underneath the car where the woman had landed, and started treating her head wound.
St. John ambulance says he used first aid to save the woman's life.
Benson protected the victim from a hot muffler, and received second-degree burns in the process.
Another 11 people from the province are being recognized with Silver Life-Saving Awards, including Mary Lou Dill, Sgt. Joe Smyth, Gerard Bursey and Kelly Potts.
Dill used CPR to "save the life" of a young boy in Florida while on vacation; Smyth helped a Special Olympian who was choking in Corner Brook in February 2015, and Bursey and Potts performed CPR on a colleague at Oceanex.