MINI: Uber Driver Hero

The show’s off today, but we couldn’t leave without revisiting yesterday’s incredible story.

On Monday, Christian shared a real life hero moment: an Uber driver who went from a routine trip to a full-scale emergency rescue. After spotting that his Greyhound bus driver was having a heart attack, he stepped up, took control, and even drove the entire coach himself  including a 13 point turn to meet paramedics halfway and help save a man’s life.

It’s one of the most extraordinary acts of quick thinking and courage we’ve ever heard on the show. Christian takes you through every twist, shock and jaw dropping detail, as we reflect on just how remarkable everyday heroes can be.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Christian O'Connell show podcast. I have got the most incredible

(00:30):
story of I would I describe this and everyday ossy
hero that I had to drag out this guy Saturday,
eight night. So I'm in an uber and I'm going
to this pub to dinner, right, And as we're going
into a pub car park, I said to him I'll
jump out here that otherwise it's going to be a
nightmare for you getting out. And he goes, Oh, don't worry.
Anyone's late sixties. Let's call him m. He goes, O,

(00:52):
I don't worry. I want. I want, due to an
offoreseen circumstances, to take control of a greyhound bus and
I did a thirteen point turn in an emergency and
I go, oh, right, are you a bus driver? He
goes no, And then I go, oh, what happened? He goes,
It's quite a story, and don't you need to get
out now? And no, no, no, tell me what happened. So

(01:13):
he's on a greyhound bus right going from Adelaide to Melbourne.
Because this guy M is First Aid trained level three,
so he's a high level first AIDA. That's not his
job he works. He used to work for the government
okay in the family law division, but anyway, he's a
first AIDA. The driver he can see isn't very well.
So EM gets up and says, hey, you okay, what's

(01:35):
going on? The driver starts to tell him and EM says,
I think you're having a heart attack, and so he
says pull over. So I said, now I'm fine, I'm
just feeling it, but he goes, no, I think THEO
says you need to put over right now. Pulls over
and then things get a lot worse. He is having
a heart attack. So because he's first day trained, he
managed to sort of, you know, start to know what
to do. They're in triple zero and they go where
are they'd given location? It goes going to take us

(01:57):
a little while to get there. M decides that he
will drive the greyhound towards the hospital. Right he's got
a bus license that he's never used just for hits
and giggles. He thought he'd take one passes might never
have to use that one. Then there's a big difference
between a bus and a greyhound coach, so he had

(02:17):
to Suddenly, he's doing the right thing. He's stepping up
as an everyday leader in a desperate situation. He then
realized these are really big I don't know how to
They've got to turn it to go towards the hospital.
He had to do a thirteen point turn driving this
greyhound coach towards the hospital and the ambulance crew were
talking on the phone to somebody else to say if

(02:40):
we can meet you halfway and gave them the location. Wow,
so they do. He hands them over to the ambos.
They saved this guy's life really thanks to M's quick decisions.
The fact that he was someone who had, you know,
basic first aid isn't an incredible story. I'd have drawn
out this guy, am, I said, that is incredible story.
I said to what happened? And he goes, why I
got a letter of a commendation from the Greyhound bus company.

(03:04):
It's going to be from the mirror or something. Minister
really made me think how many people would be alive
if we knew basic first aid. I almost think it
should be part of like even taking any driver's test
or something. Like that where it really made. We've said
this before, but now I haven't listened to his story,
and that I wouldn't know what to do in a
desperate situation which could happen any moment in our lives.

(03:26):
But I'd like to. I think that we as a
team should commit in the next couple of weeks to
learning basic first aid because actually, even here now do
we even know where the DEFIP thing is? Now? Yes,
I think it is near the toilet, but I don't
know for sure. We don't know how to use it. No, no,
I wouldn't have the first clear none of them. No,

(03:47):
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