Thank you to all the heroes on our roads for helping others

Q A few weeks ago I was on El Camino Real waiting to turn left on to El Monte Avenue in Los Altos. One car was ahead of me. To the right was a young man in a wheelchair, waiting to cross in front of us. The walk sign came on and he started wheeling slowly across, all alone. It seemed to me he wasn’t going to make it across all seven lanes in time.

Just then the door on the car ahead of me flew open and the driver jumped out, ran around the front of his car to the man in the wheelchair, and pushed him quickly all the way across to safety. The driver then ran back to his car and jumped in just as the arrow turned green.

I was dumbstruck. I followed his car for a mile or so, hoping he would stop so I could thank him. He kept going, so I turned toward home. I hope he reads this and realizes how much his action was appreciated.

A I hope he reads it, too. This guy perhaps saved a life and deserves a round of applause as do many others.

Q Thank you to the knight of the road who stopped to help me jump-start my car. I was stranded in downtown Palo Alto with a dead battery. I popped the hood and held up my jumper cables so passing cars could see I needed a jump. Dozens of cars zipped past without even slowing down.

Then a gentleman stopped and took 3 minutes out of his day to jump-start me. Thank you. You set a great example for everybody. — Sue Kayton, Menlo Park

A Another good guy.

Q My van died on me on Oakland Road in San Jose. I turned on my emergency lights and began calling AAA to get off this busy road. I need not have worried. Three men working nearby rushed into the street and pushed my van into a parking lot. I tried giving them a few dollars, but they smiled and said no. — Mary Fuentes

A And another one …

Q When driving on Highway 101, if I see a semi-truck in the slow lane approaching an onramp and I am in the next lane over, I will slack off a little to give the truck some room to make a lane change in case some slowpoke is getting onto the freeway. –Dennis Cole, San Martin

A Truckers love road courtesy like this, as we all should. Any other good stories out there? Please share them.