A pregnant woman was crushed by this bus in The Bronx yesterday – but a superhuman effort by 30 strangers who lifted the vehicle off her body miraculously saved her baby before she died.
Donnette Sanz, 33, identified as an NYPD traffic agent, never got a chance to hold her 3-pound, 6-ounce son, who came into the world via emergency Cesarean section at nearby St. Barnabas Hospital.
She was pronounced dead shortly after his extraordinary birth. The child, named Sean Michael by Sanz’ sister, was in critical condition, but healthy and expected to live.
Within seconds, more than two dozen strangers – from a nearby park, the busy sidewalk and a construction site – had poured into the street to aid Sanz.
“Twenty of us started lifting up the bus – about 10 more came to help,” said hardhat Madalina Diaz, 42, of Ardsley. “We didn’t really communicate, we all just started lifting. We lifted it up and someone pulled her out.Sanz was rushed into the St. Barnabas emergency room at 2:18 p.m. She survived the emergency delivery, and died at 4:22 p.m., a spokesman said.
The baby boy was named Sean Michael, said Sanz’s sister, Beverly.
Sad – but beautiful – tale.
Sad, but beautiful. Well said!
When’s the movie out? Or what movie are they promoting?
Fool.
NYPD traffic agent? Who cares?
Shows that there are still people who care in this world.
Shows what can happen when people who don’t even know each other all pull in the same direction. An amazing story, we don’t get enough good news.
I wonder if the boy will ever find out about his mom. Tough decision to make.
#4 – I hope the hell that you’re joking.
Why the politically charged title? That was a fetus, not a baby.
MikeN
Why the politically charged comment? It’s a baby, not a fetus.
People, ya did good. I’m proud of ya.
I needed that story.
Wow, some characters we have here posting on this sad story…
Hey irish, you’re packin’
but not salutin’ the good guys?
#8-9:
When they removed the bus, it was a collection of tissue. When they removed it from the womb, it was a baby. Clear now?
Unfortunately, some of the posting on here show the direction that this blog is taking.
For a while it has seemed that JCD is trying to attract the lower end of society – it seems that he is succeeding. Well done, I hope the ad revenues are worth it.
morality in a blogs comment section?
STFU nubs.
and then, as if by magic… the shop keeper appears!