Bailey Lindrea was driving home when something on the side of the road caught his attention.
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“I thought it was a bin at first laying there but it just looked odd, how it was laying on the footpath,” he said.
“So I slowed down and I pulled over to have a look.”
What he found was an unconscious man, who had fallen off a mobility scooter.
The 18-year-old flagged down his friends, Cooper Jones and Tom Bickley, near the five-way roundabout at Flora Hill.
Tom called for an ambulance, while Cooper and Bailey tried to wake the man up.
Bailey said he knew the man was alive because he could feel his pulse and hear him breathing.
It was about two minutes before Bailey said he and Cooper got a response out of the man.
Meanwhile, Tom had flagged down another car.
“The people we flagged down were a soldier and a nurse… so that was very handy,” Cooper said.
Tom relayed instructions for the man’s care, while they waited for paramedics to arrive.
He said the nurse’s assistance, in particular, was invaluable.
Much to their relief, the teens said paramedics found that there was “nothing wrong” with the man.
“He was just going to wake up with a bump on his head,” Bailey said.
But it wasn’t until they had loaded the man’s scooter into Cooper’s ute, dropped him off at his home and put the scooter on to charge that they felt sure he would be okay.
“Tom wrote a little message, just saying what actually happened in case someone wanted to know,” Bailey said.
The following day, February 17, the man sent Tom a text to let him know that he had a bit of a sore head, but was otherwise fine.
“It was good to know we had actually helped him,” Cooper said.
Bailey said the man was pleasantly surprised to learn that he and his friends were 18 years old.
“He thought we were a lot older,” he said.
But the young men were adamant that anyone would have done the same thing.
“It could be your dad, your grandfather, your uncle,” Tom said.