Dog wound down window to save Tim
Crash survivor Tim Allcock is a firm believer in guardian angels now that he has seen one with his own eyes.
The 26-year-old from Paremata was reunited last Thursday with Angel Marsh and her dog Remi, who came to his aid after his car skidded off the road on Monday night.
The bizarre circumstances that led Marsh and her partner, David McCready, to find the crash site in dense bush off the Haywards Hill Road had Allcock scratching his head three days on.
‘‘It was almost too good to be true,’’ he said.
‘‘Someone must be looking over me.’’
It was pitch black and raining when Allcock was driving on Haywards Hill about 10.30pm.
His car slid on a corner and spun off the road, landing upsidedown in brush about five metres away.
Allcock managed to punch out a window and drag himself from the car, but with his right leg broken in two places, he did not get very far.
He spent about 90 minutes pumping the car’s brake lights and yelling at the top of his voice at the 80kmh traffic.
About 40 vehicles drove past but none saw or heard him.
Angel Marsh would not have heard him either were it not for english bull terrier Remi, who jumped up and wound down the car’s electric window just as they drove by.
‘‘The window lock is on 99 per cent of the time in our car so it was weird that it wasn’t on at that moment,’’ Marsh said.
‘‘I heard the words clear as day.’’
Marsh and McCready found Allcock and stayed with him until emergency services arrived and took him to Hutt Hospital.
He was discharged after having a titanium rod and steel plate inserted in his leg to fix his broken tibia and fibula bones.
Allcock was convinced that he would have been left to tough it out in the rain and near-freezing conditions all night were it not for the curious set of events that delivered him a saviour.
‘‘I don’t normally pray, but I was praying pretty hard that night, and had my fingers crossed,’’ he said.
‘‘ And with her name being Angel, of all things, it had to be more than just a coincidence.’’
Marsh was less of a believer in divine intervention, simply putting her actions down to being in the right place at the right time.
But seeing the strength Allcock displayed to get through his ordeal had left a lasting impression on her, she said.
‘‘It was very refreshing. It made me feel a bit dumb for worrying about smaller things.’’
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