Police honor ‘guardian angel’ DoorDash driver who saved her customer’s life during food delivery

Police honored a Massachusetts DoorDash driver final week for saving the lifetime of one among her prospects.

Sophia Furtado, 26, arrived at a Fairhaven, Massachusetts, dwelling to finish a DoorDash supply in February solely to search out the shopper, Caryn Sullivan, unconscious on the bottom and bleeding from her head. Furtado ran inside to wake Sullivan’s husband, who had fallen asleep after making the order.

Sullivan says she has had knee hassle for years and felt one among her legs collapse underneath her as she waited outdoors for the supply, leading to her hanging her head on the bottom.

Furtado, who went to high school to be an EMT, started giving Sullivan medical consideration whereas ready for police and medics to reach. Sullivan would finally spend three weeks within the hospital with a traumatic mind harm.

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“She wrapped a blanket across the girl, and used a pillow to use gentle direct stress to the wound on her head that was nonetheless actively bleeding,” Fairhaven Police stated of Furtado. “Sophia held her and stored her stabilized to stop any doable additional spinal harm. She was updating dispatch on the ladies’s situation, giving officers and medics essential pre-arrival info.”

Police say medical doctors on the hospital have been “adamant” that Sullivan would have succumbed to her accidents if there had been any delay in her care. Police awarded Furtado with a “Life Saving Award” in an April 20 ceremony.

“She was my guardian angel,” Sullivan stated on the ceremony. “If I did not have her, I might in all probability be useless.”