A man has been praised for being in the right place at the right time when he saved baby in a stroller from almost rolling directly into busy traffic on a nearby highway.
Watch the shocking moment below:
The tense moment was captured on video as the good samaritan raced towards the baby in the stroller from rolling into a heart-pounding situation.
The viral video, which was shared on Monday (1 May), shows the woman - whose relation to the baby is currently unknown - trying desperately to get back on her feet after falling down by her parked car in Hesperia, California.
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In her attempts to race after the stroller, she trips onto the floor and as the stroller appears to be just a few feet from the cars on the highway, a man rushes in and saves the baby in the nick of time.
The hero was later identified as Ron Nessman, who was in the area for a job interview.
He had been homeless for several years and just started living with his sister, Donna Gunderson, who told NBCLA that her ‘heart dropped’ when she saw the video.
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“I knew I could get it and I got it,” the hero told the local news station.
“And I’m thankful for that because I really wouldn’t want to see the end result if I wasn’t there,” he said.
“She tried everything she possibly could to get up,” Nessman said of the woman who injured her knees in her falls.
“Her knees were bleeding when I got up to her she was still shocked and she was crying.”
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Another good samaritan can be seen helping the woman in the parking lot.
Speaking to KTLA 5, Nessman said: “I noticed the stroller was going towards the traffic and I instinctively ran towards the stroller and dived before it went into the traffic and there was a child inside the stroller.
"I was thankful I was at the right place at the right time."
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After the video went viral on Twitter, one shocked viewer said: “Man it’s like one of those dreams where you can’t run!”
Another Twitter user praised Nessman, writing: “Oh my goodness… I was panicked. How Terrifying! Thank God for that man being there!”
And a third wrote: “Well, I watched that with my heart in my throat. God bless that man!”
Gregory Robinson