By Sarah Calams
Police1
LOS ANGELES — A hotel owner on a smoke break is being hailed a hero after coming to the aid of an injured California Highway Patrol officer on Tuesday.
The CHP officer was stopped on the right shoulder of a freeway – seated in his patrol car while conducting a traffic stop – when a driver lost control of their SUV and rear-ended the officer’s vehicle. The impact of the crash pushed the officer’s vehicle into another car, rendering the officer unconscious.
Shiraz Deayal, owner of a nearby Days Inn, hopped over a fence to reach the officer.
“I was the first one on scene. I pry open his door and I’m trying to see if he’s alert or not. I grab his radio and I say, ‘Officer down, Officer down.’ The radio goes silent and they do an all-alert and they ask me where I’m at and who I am,” Deayal told Fox11.com.
Deayal stayed on scene until the officer gained consciousness: “He was trying to do something I thought he’d never do. He was worried about the people around him and I tell him, ‘Don’t worry, I got you.’ I tried to help him out as best I can.”
The officer was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries, according to the report. Three other drivers involved in the crash suffered minor injuries. No arrests were made, police said.
“If it was a regular accident, I wouldn’t have hopped over the fence, but as it was a law enforcement officer, I did hop over. The officer’s safety is my most concern,” Deayal said.