Man Saves Individual And Does Not Know It

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COLUMBUS—Our January mornings have been quite dark for motorists traveling Indiana highways. Last Saturday J. R. Cummings of Bedford was on an early morning business trip to Columbus when he noticed a car ahead of him vere off the road and disappear.

Puzzled by that observation, he turned around and drove back to check. He could barely make out a taillight of a vehicle that was submerged in water.

Cummings used his cell phone to call 911, and the State Police arrived shortly thereafter. Once a wrecker, the fire dept., and an ambulance were on the scene, J. R. Cummings continued on to his appointment in Columbus......of the opinion that no one survived.

Sometime later, the State Police called to inform him a man was alive. He had survived the ordeal, having found a pocket of air, and was able to climb out on his own from the raised wreckage.

Had Cummings not turned around to check, that person, 22-year-old Leonardo Garcia, of Seymour, most likely would have died from exposure or drowned.

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