US veteran dubbed highway ‘angel’ for using combat first aid to save crash survivor

Marine veteran James Brown rescued a driver with a piece of metal lodged in his leg A US military veteran and trucker recently used his battlefield medical training to save the life of a fellow truck driver whose leg was impaled by a piece of metal after a crash, earning him official recognition as an “angel” of the nation’s highways. As the organization honoring him tells it, James Brown was driving for Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Melton Truck Lines through torrential rain – as well as low visibil...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas