The story of a hero.

It's only been told to a few people.

Alex while on his way home for lunch from work was hit by a drunk driver and killed.
While that mostly tells the story it is only partially the truth.

It was a somewhat clear and crisp January night when alex was driving his truck home for lunch. I was on call at the fire station in town working ems. I remember the moon a lot during that night.

Alex was struck while going through an intersection and his truck was knocked into a fairly deep ditch/culvert. The truck landed upside down. Estimates put the drunk ladies rate of speed as high as 100mph. Alex was hit on the drivers side breaking his left arm and shattering a bunch of ribs and so many other injuries it's amazing he lived past the initial impact.

Now this was a quiet country sort of road so nobody happened upon the scene until well after EMS got there.

Alex badly injured managed somehow to kick out the rear window of his truck and crawl back onto the road. I know this because of the blood trail and crawl marks left from his truck to the drunk womans car.

Alex must have saw that the womans car was on fire and he somehow managed to make it to her auto. With strength from somewhere i can only imagine alex managed to rip the door from the womans badly damaged car. pulling her unconscious body out he got her far enough away from the burning auto.

Someone was assume him dialed 911 on his cell phone and the signal was triangulated.

I got the call very early in the morning. I didn't know my brother was involved until we arrived on scene. The drunk woman was essentially just bruised up with a few cuts that were minor. I am amazed from the look of both car and truck that anyone at all lived through the accident.

Alex lay dead on the side of the road. He had even thrown what was left of his coat over the unconscious drunk woman who had cost him his own life.

That was the night i truly saw my brother for the amazing individual he was.

Alexander P Chadwick.

MY Hero.