\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Cape Coral couple says they still get goosebumps thinking about the moments they stopped to help a crash victim during an afternoon of errands on Monday at around 3 p.m.Christina Howard says they missed the crash near Southwest 10th Street by seconds. As they approached the scene along Skyline Boulevard, they learned a person was trapped and unconscious.\u201cMy husband rolled the window down and asked if everyone was OK,\u201d Howard said. \u201cWe pulled over and got out to help.\u201dHoward says a black Camaro was lodged against a tree in the median, trapping a 17-year-old driver inside the mangled vehicle. Just across the northbound lanes, a pickup truck had also slammed into the garage of a nearby home, leaving visible damage.\u201cThe accident was horrible,\u201d Howard said. \u201cThe driver had blood on him.\u201dWhile waiting for first responders, Howard says her husband placed his hand on the teen\u2019s head and prayed. Within minutes, the unconscious teen opened his eyes just before emergency crews arrived.Howard later heard from the teen\u2019s father, who said his son suffered a broken wrist and needed stitches but is expected to recover.We’ve reached out to the Cape Coral Police Department to learn what led to the crash and whether anyone else was hurt. Count on Gulf Coast News to update you once we learn more.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A Cape Coral couple says they still get goosebumps thinking about the moments they stopped to help a crash victim during an afternoon of errands on Monday at around 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
Christina Howard says they missed the crash near Southwest 10th Street by seconds. As they approached the scene along Skyline Boulevard, they learned a person was trapped and unconscious.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband rolled the window down and asked if everyone was OK,\u201d Howard said. \u201cWe pulled over and got out to help.\u201d<\/p>\n
Howard says a black Camaro was lodged against a tree in the median, trapping a 17-year-old driver inside the mangled vehicle. Just across the northbound lanes, a pickup truck had also slammed into the garage of a nearby home, leaving visible damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accident was horrible,\u201d Howard said. \u201cThe driver had blood on him.\u201d<\/p>\n
While waiting for first responders, Howard says her husband placed his hand on the teen\u2019s head and prayed. Within minutes, the unconscious teen opened his eyes just before emergency crews arrived.<\/p>\n
Howard later heard from the teen\u2019s father, who said his son suffered a broken wrist and needed stitches but is expected to recover.<\/p>\n
We’ve reached out to the Cape Coral Police Department to learn what led to the crash and whether anyone else was hurt. Count on Gulf Coast News to update you once we learn more.<\/p>\n
DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cape Coral couple says they still get goosebumps thinking about the moments they stopped to help a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-94511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}