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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
Freeport, Bahamas - Presentation of the Most Courteous Driver of the Quarter Award-September 2013, at the joint weekly meeting of the Rotary Clubs of Lucaya and Freeport, at the Ruby Swiss Restaurant on Thursday afternoon ( l to r ): *Ms Billy Jane Ferguson,Lucaya Rotary Club president,GB Road Traffic Deputy Controller Basil V Rahming, recipient Theron Moss who is president of the Freeport Rotaract Club, GB Road Safety Committee co-chairman John R Fraser and Inspector Alphonso Pinder, GB Traffic Police Division.
At about 2: 45am on Thursday 6th June 2013, Theron Moss of Abaco Drive, Hawksbill, was driving his car west along East Sunrise Highway accompanied by a male passenger. Upon reaching in the vicinity of the Captain's Charthouse, he noticed a grey Ford Taurus car parked on the southern grass verge, with smoke emanating from underneath the vehicle.
He immediately pulled over to investigate and noticed a young man slumped over the steering wheel, who appeared to be unconscious. Mr Moss and his passenger attempted to rouse the driver, who responded and said that he was suffering from chest pains.
While on his phone calling the police for an ambulance, Mr Moss noticed that a fire had ignited underneath the vehicle, so he also requested a fire engine, while he and his passenger lifted the young man from the car and laid him down on the grass.
The vehicle suddenly erupted in flames, causing Mr Moss and his passenger to remove the young man furhter away from the blazing inferno.
An ambulance soon arrived and transported the young man, a resident of Caravel Beach, to the Rand Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and later discharged.
The vehicle was destroyed by the fire, before Fire Officers arrived on the scene.
As a result of this considerate act on the part of Mr Moss, he has been nominated as the " Most Courteous Driver of the Quarter-September 2013."
He was presented with an inscribed mahogany plaque, along with a gift certificate for a full tank of gasoline.
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