The SMH reports:
A daredevil Good Samaritan saved the life of a truck driver and averted a potentially serious accident today with his bravery and quick thinking, Hunter Valley ambulance officers say.
The Good Samaritan, understood to be a local miner, was driving near Cessnock when he encountered a swerving semi-trailer on Wollombi Road at Bellbird around 6.50am. Noticing the truck driver was slumped over the wheel, the motorist immediately did a u-turn and accelerated past the truck before stopping ahead of it.
The man somehow managed to climb aboard the cab while it was moving and pull the handbrake before calling an ambulance for the stricken driver, an ambulance spokeswoman said.
The middle-aged, diabetic truck driver had fallen unconscious because of low blood sugar levels, she said. He had been treated at the scene and partially regained consciousness by the time he reached Cessnock Hospital. His condition was improving, the spokeswoman said. The identity of the brave motorist remained a mystery as he did not give his name to ambulance officers.
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