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Virginia corrections officer praised for stopping to help 4 young people in overturned vehicle
By washingtonpost.com
Published: 02/28/2013

RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia Department of Corrections officer is being praised for coming to the aid of four young people in an overturned car in a creek during a snowstorm.

The department says Officer Willie Thompson was heading home after finishing his Feb. 17 shift at the Harrisonburg Men’s Detention Center in Rockingham County.

Thompson had stopped to remove a vehicle’s bumper from a road when he heard screaming coming from below a bridge. He discovered four young people in the car and helped three of them up the bank and into his vehicle.

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