Good Samaritans Rush to Aid Car Crash Victim

By ALEXANDRIA BORDAS | Reporter

Dwayne Domingo dropped his bike helmet in shock after he saw a truck slam into a woman, knocking her flat on her back in the middle of the crosswalk on Bashford Street at Monument Avenue at noon on Monday, Aug. 31.

Domingo’s brother, Patrick Lawson, had just finished his new hire orientation at Sweet Rose Creamery when he heard a sickening crunch of metal and turned around to see an elderly woman bleeding in the street.

Seconds after the accident, Domingo took off at a sprint toward the accident with Lawson following close behind him.

“I picked her up out of the street and carried her to the sidewalk. There was blood everywhere,” Domingo, 24, told the Palisadian-Post at the scene.

Lawson, 24, told the Post the woman kept repeating that she was fine and needed to go, but Lawson and Domingo insisted she sit down while they dialed 9-1-1.

Lawson said he saw the driver using his cell phone as he turned onto Monument where he hit the pedestrian.

“It’s like he wasn’t even looking,” Lawson claimed of the driver. “He was going like 10 or 15 miles per hour when he hit her (the victim). It sounded like a car accident. It was so loud.”

Sean Barnett, 17, was waiting at the stop sign on Bashford when the accident occurred.

“The truck pulled in front of me when making the turn, and I didn’t see what happened to her (the victim) until everyone started running,” Barnett, a senior at Palisades Charter High School, told the Post. “I wanted to stick around to make sure the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) got there because I wanted to make sure the guy didn’t just get away with it.”

Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Station 69 responded, treated the woman at the scene and reported no major injuries.

“The lady was on her way to pick up her husband, who she said has Alzheimer’s, so I called him and had to keep telling him she was okay because he was really scared at first,” Domingo said. “But I reassured him she was picking him up soon and not to worry.”

LAPD Officer Suh, who filed an injury report, told the Post, “The vehicle was impounded and the driver was cited for not having a license or insurance.”