According to a police report, 80-year-old Francois Truffaut was
trapped in his stalled car on railroad tracks in Old Orchard Beach, ME, today.
James Laboke noticed the stalled car and reported it to police.
According to Laboke, the man appeared to be unconscious, the car doors were
locked. Laboke pounded on the window, but the driver remained slumped over the
wheel.
Janet Paradiso, captain of the town police force, was in her
cruiser about a mile away from the railroad crossing. She arrived at the scene just
five minutes before the train was due. “I knew there was no time. I had to do
something,” Paradiso said.
Brian Paul, chief of police in Old Orchard Beach, and
Paradiso rammed a police cruiser into Trufgfaut’s Cadillac and pushed it from
the tracks.
A diabetic, Truffaut may have gone into insulin shock as he
reached the railroad crossing. He was
listed in stable condition.
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