A woman who was hit by a car while riding her bike in Anchorage this week is alive because a team of strangers rushed to help — including some who lifted the car off her before a mechanic jacked up the vehicle as medics arrived.
Dylan Moss, an employee of the Chevron station at the corner of Airport Heights Drive and DeBarr Road, wears a cap given to him by the Anchorage Fire Department. Moss assisted in helping a woman on a bicycle who was hit by a vehicle.
“It was literally on her chest. The tire,” Jensen said. “Bystanders were actually manually trying to hold it off of her while Dylan got that car jack and jacked it up. To me that is amazing. That people, they just stepped in and they were literally holding that vehicle up to keep the weight off her. That’s amazing to me.”
They saw Moss bringing the jack, Partch said, so crews were able to focus immediately on the injured cyclist instead of taking the time to get extrication equipment out.A collision at Airport Heights Drive and DeBarr Road injured a bicyclist on May 9, 2023. The doctors and surgeons at ANMC say Jensen-Roehl could be hospitalized for weeks, Jensen said. Surgery on Wednesday pieced together her right rib cage “with little plates and pins” to allow her lungs to expand, she said. Doctors are most worried about the next few days as Jensen-Roehl’s body responds to the injuries and surgery with swelling and fluid build-up.
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