Facebook Post Hopes To Find Good Samaritan From An Accident Scene In 2002
A Good Samaritan helped a family at the scene of a serious car accident near Millersville some 13 years ago. Maddie Williams was four years old at the time of the accident and is now trying to track down their kind helper using a Facebook post.
Williams’ family was involved in a serious car accident close to Millersville, approximately 15 miles north of Nashville. The family was on its way from Reynoldsburg, Ohio to San Antonio, Texas to visit family on June 15, 2002 in a Toyota Tundra, pulling a 26-foot tandem wheel camper.
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Maddie was strapped in her cat seat at the time of the crash, but a man pulled over to the side of the road and helped her father out of the truck. He gently removed Maddie from the damaged vehicle, wrapping her in her dad’s shirt as he went to help the rest of the family.
It turned out that her mother, Katie, had died in the accident and her brother, Daniel Williams Jr., was seriously injured.
While Maddie is now 18 years old, she has never forgotten that day. In an effort to find the Good Samaritan, Maddie wrote a public Facebook post on November 13, which has since had thousands of views and shares.
In the Facebook post, Maddie said that many good people came into their lives that day, but there is one important man she never got the name of, and never got to thank.
Speaking of her injured brother, Maddie wrote, “This man held me when I saw my brother for the first time on the freeway, who was seriously injured. He played a very important role at a horrific moment and I want to be able to thank him.”
She added that finding and thanking the Good Samaritan is something she has been wanting to do for years, and while she knows it is a “shot in the dark” she hoped that people would like and share her Facebook post, in an effort to track the man down. Since Maddie made the Facebook post on November 13, it has, at the time of writing, been shared 8,971 times.
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Maddie told The Tennessean she was amazed and thrilled that the Facebook post has been seen and shared so many times.
“I honestly thought it’d get 100 shares tops. It was a huge surprise for me.”
While so far she hasn’t tracked down their kind helper, there has been some response to the Facebook post. Some of the first responders to the scene who remember the accident have said they will go through their notes and reports relating to the accident in an attempt to identify the person who was at the scene at the time.
So far there has been no feedback on the name of the man or where he is from, and Maddie says she doesn’t know if he was a local resident or just someone passing through the area.
Maddie said she’s not sure what she will say if she does track him down – she’s still trying to figure that out, but that she would just like to give him a huge thank you.
While other posts about Facebook on the Inquisitr speak of less savory aspects of the social media platform, including apps that steal your data, like the “most used words” app, sometimes a Facebook post can do something far more positive. It has to be hoped that someone will spot the post, either on Facebook itself or in the media and come forward to contact Maddie after all these years.
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