A Leetsdale police sergeant has been recognized for a medical-emergency response that officials said helped save a driver’s life after a crash in Bell Acres, Pennsylvania.
According to TribLive reporting by Michael DiVittorio, Leetsdale Mayor Sandra Ford presented Police Sgt. Michael Slawianowski with a certificate of appreciation on May 14 for his role in the February response.
The report says the incident happened shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 24, when a woman crashed her SUV into a trailer in the lot of the former Berkeys in Bell Acres. Leetsdale Police Chief Kristoffer Korol was monitoring traffic nearby, and Leet Police Chief Brian Jameson and Fair Oaks Assistant Fire Chief Jacob Mosholder also responded.
The driver had become unresponsive, according to the report. Slawianowski and the other responders worked together to perform CPR and use an automated external defibrillator. They restored the woman’s pulse and partial breathing, continued treatment until EMS arrived, and the woman was transported to a hospital and later recovered, TribLive reported.
“Due to the group efforts, they were able to save the life of the driver,” Ford said, according to TribLive. “We are very fortunate to have an officer such as Sgt. Slawianowski in Leetsdale.”
Slawianowski told the outlet that the responders knew each other from years of working together and that their training “just kicked in.”
The recognition is a reminder that public-safety work is often measured in quiet first minutes: starting CPR, getting an AED into action, and keeping someone alive until the next layer of care arrives.
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