Cement truck driver saves choking woman on side of highway

“Instinct took over.”

A cement truck driver who saved a choking woman after she pulled over along a Chicago-area highway says he acted on “instinct” when he saw her in distress.

Jeff Hanus was working at a job site on Nov. 4 when the woman drove up to his truck parked near Interstate 55 in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook. She got out off her car, leaving two children inside, and approached Hanus.

“She raises her hands up towards her throat, and that’s the international sign for choking, so I asked, ‘Are you choking?’ and she clearly said yes,” Hanus told Chicago ABC station WLS.

He performed the Heimlich maneuver, twice thrusting his fists into the woman’s abdomen before whatever was choking her dislodged.

Hanus said he’s grateful the woman found him in a sea of traffic.

“Her angels and my angels got together,” he said. “And it worked out.”

Original source (ABC/Youtube)