By Police1 Staff
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Saving lives is a part of the job for a police officer, but how one Pennsylvania cop recently saved a life was anything but routine.
A doctor and his team were transporting a liver to a patient at a different hospital when their van slid off the road and lost a tire, WPXI reported.
No one was injured in the crash, but the team needed to get the liver to the patient quickly.
Sgt. Darrick Keppley saw the van needed assistance and transported the team and the organ 61 miles to the hospital, according to the news station.
“He went lights and sirens and that got us there probably twice as fast,” Dr. Warren Maley said. “That was quite a god send.”
The surgery was a success. The police chief is working on arranging a meeting between the sergeant and the organ recipient.