Aurora – The police report on the aftermath of the car crash reads like a superhero comic: “The mysterious man used his tow apparatus to free the victim from her impending death. … The male helped free the woman and then vanished.”
Police searched for the good Samaritan who stopped to help a woman pinned under her car – the victim of a single-car rollover crash in Aurora on May 14.
On Monday, police identified two brothers who stopped at the crash site near East Iliff Avenue and South Sedalia Street and used the towing machinery on the back of their pickup to lift the car.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates presented Denver repo man Heath Main, and his brother, Kyle, with Outstanding Citizen Life-Saving Awards. “They are true heroes in our community,” Oates said at a news conference.
Aurora resident Arleen Meyer was pinned under her Mercury Cougar in the crash. Officer Robert Snyder, the investigating officer, said doctors told him Meyer would have died if the vehicle was on her for 30 more seconds.
Meyer was under the two-ton car, her body just behind the shredded front tire, said former Lt. Gov. Joe Rogers, who stopped to help. It was a nightmare, he said. Blood pooled around Meyer. The horn blared. And her legs were protruding from under the car.
“You see it on television, but when you walk up on it,” he recalled Monday, “you don’t want to see.”
Rogers said the goal was to flag down 10 men to help lift the car. They had eight, and the last two were the repo men.
“They were sent there by somebody,” said Duane Meyer, Arleen’s husband. “We’re going to stay in touch with each other.”
The two repo men said they were in the right place at the right time.
“The only reason we were there was because we stopped at McDonald’s to get an ice-cream cone” on the way to a repossession, said Heath Main, 26.
Arleen Meyer is still hospitalized. But she’s starting to talk, her family said.
Kyle Main, 20, meanwhile, had a message.
“People always look at us as the bad guys because we’re the repo men,” he said. “But, believe it or not, we have a heart.”
