Several Rome High School football players are being honored for helping a woman involved in a wreck.  The young men assisted a fifty-year-old woman who was trapped in her car after an accident near the high school last week.

An teacher on duty in the parking lot that morning called 911 after witnessing the accident.  He then saw the football players run to the car to help out the woman who was trapped inside her car.  The young men pried the door of the car open and helped the woman out of the car she was trapped in.

The players then stayed with the woman until paramedics arrived on the scene.

You can read an eyewitness account of the actions of these young men below:

The following quote is an eye-witness account from Luis Goya, an educator at Rome City Schools:

“This morning I witnessed something amazing that our Football players did. While I was in front of the school during my morning duty, I heard a loud noise at the intersection that appeared to be a wreck. While I was running to the intersection, I noticed that two cars were involved.

There was a 50-year-old lady trapped in her car and couldn’t get out. Smoke started to come out of the car, and fluid started to spill everywhere in the intersection. The door was jammed and in terrible shape. While I was on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, the football players who witnessed the wreck, ran to the car, and started helping the lady.

They literally started using their strength to pry the door open, so the lady could be released. After a few seconds of pulling and pushing the door, the boys ended up opening it and helped her get out of the car. She was shaking and still in panic, but our RHS boys gave her comfort and were able to help her.

The Rome High School football players really showed up today. They went above and beyond to help this lady without hesitation.”