{"id":355760,"date":"2026-09-24T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355760\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:18:12","slug":"dashcam-captures-new-york-drivers-kind-act-after-he-stops-to-save-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355760\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashcam Captures New York Driver&#8217;s Kind Act After He Stops To Save A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A New York driver stopped traffic after spotting a snapping turtle stranded in the middle of the road.Justin Rios was driving westbound on NY-300 toward Walden, New York, USA, when he noticed the animal ahead. He stopped, put his hazard lights on and grabbed a pair of heavy-duty gloves from his trunk.&#8221;So I blocked traffic, put my blinkers on, grabbed my heavy duty gloves out the trunk and eventually mustered up the courage to pick up this tortoise,&#8221; Rios said.The animal repeatedly clawed at his gloves as he carried it away from the traffic.&#8221;It was very wiggly and didn&#8217;t like to be touched,&#8221; he explained.Near the end of the rescue, the turtle managed to pry itself loose from Rios&#8217; hands and fell when it was only an inch from the ground.Rios later shared the dashcam footage on Instagram, writing: &#8220;Today, I cast my fears aside, and saved a tortoise from getting smushed.&#8221;He also joked that without the gloves, its claws might have &#8220;taken my fingers off.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York driver stopped traffic after spotting a snapping turtle stranded in the middle of the road.Justin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132568,132567,9,11,10,132569,35862],"class_list":["post-355760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-heavy-duty-gloves","tag-justin-rios","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-snapping-turtle","tag-walden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}