Teenage hero helps car crash victims
AHEROIC Stockport Sea Cadet put his first-aid skills to the test to help two women who had been involved in a car smash.
Jordan Connor, 17, was walking home from work along Mottram Road last Friday when he witnessed the accident.
He sprang into action and, using the skills he had learned as a Sea Cadet, helped one driver out of her car after establishing she had no spine or back injuries.
Jordan, from Stalybridge, helped her and another woman, aged 95, to stay calm until paramedics, who he had called, arrived.
Following the accident the apprentice fitness instructor has been called a hero by one of the women he helped and has urged others to learn potentially life-saving first aid.
He said: “I was the only one there who knew what to do, no one else knew how to act.
“It was thanks to Sea Cadets that I was able to help. I have qualifications from my time there and I was able to keep calm and act when it mattered.
“Everyone I have told has commented on what I did and my mum was so proud when I told her. But I just did what anyone would, really, although I didn’t realise until a few hours afterwards the scale of it.”
Petty Officer Phillip Guest, officer in charge at Stockport Sea Cadets, said: “Jordan is one of our senior cadets. We are very proud of him at the unit and are not surprised to hear of his actions at the scene of an accident.
“We, as a charity, give our cadets the skills and confidence, but it is the cadets as individuals who put these skills into action.
“Jordan is everything Sea Cadets promotes and he demonstrates the values at all times. As his commanding officer, I am proud to hear of his involvement in supporting people and giving assistance.”