TRUCK DRIVER SAVES WOMAN HAVEING A HEART ATTACT

A WOMAN PASSED OUT WHILE SHE WAS DRIVING, SO A TRUCKER HELPED STOP HER RUNAWAY CAR:

Last week, Joanne Haplin of Weirton, West Virginia, was driving down the highway when she suffered a mild heart attack . . . and lost consciousness. But listen to this . . . An unidentified truck driver noticed that Joanne was in need of help. So to help minimize the damage, the guy pulled his truck in front of Joanne . . . and forced her car to come to a stop by allowing it to crash into his rear bumper.

According to a police officer who witnessed the whole thing, "When we got the vehicle stopped, we ran to the driver's side door and [Joanne] was completely unconscious. She started to come around but had no idea what was going on." Joanne was rushed to the hospital where she underwent surgery and, according to her doctors, she's expected to make a full recovery. (WTOV News 9 - Steubenville)

(--This whole crazy incident was caught on a police officer's dash camera. You can check out the video here . . .) http://www.wtov9.com/news/18924172/detail.html

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YOUR CHANCES OF SUFFERING A HEART ATTACK ARE THREE TIMES HIGHER . . . IF YOU'VE JUST BEEN STUCK IN TRAFFIC:

I think we can all agree that being stuck in traffic can take a serious toll on your mental health. But it turns out traffic can wreak havoc on your physical health too. Recently, a group of researchers from Germany studied more than 1,500 heart attack cases over a four-year span. What they found is that being stuck in traffic . . . whether as a driver, a passenger or even a bicyclist . . . increases a person's HEART ATTACK risk by more than THREE TIMES.

A woman named Annette Peters led the study. She says, "We found that when people are participating in traffic, they have a threefold increased risk to experience a heart attack one hour later. --"For someone with a very low risk for a heart attack, this doesn't mean much. But for someone already at a higher risk for a heart attack . . . then traffic might be an additional stressor that could cause a heart attack to occur." (Health Day)