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Luis Cruz dashed into a busy street in Puebla, Mexico, to pull a girl out of the path of an approaching S.U.V. Footage of the rescue has made him a local sensation.
Listen · 3:56 minA supermarket manager in Puebla, Mexico, is being celebrated as a local hero after he saved a toddler from being struck by a speeding car in a dramatic rescue caught on video.
The manager, Luis Cruz, was working on his day off on Sunday, filling in for five no-show employees, when his store nearly became the site of a tragedy.
“It was fate,” Mr. Cruz said in a video interview on Wednesday from the supermarket, Super King, El Rey del Ahorro (The King of Savings). Typically, he would be inside working on administrative tasks, he said, but because the store was short-staffed, he was outside helping move items.
Security camera footage taken outside the supermarket shows Mr. Cruz, 34, moving a pallet of toilet paper when the toddler runs out of the entrance and toward a busy thoroughfare with six lanes of traffic. Her speed immediately drew Mr. Cruz's attention, he said.
For a split second, it looks as if the toddler might reverse course, before she seemingly changes her mind and darts back toward the street. Mr. Cruz takes after her. The young girl’s mother sprints out of the store toward her daughter, but she slips and falls mere inches from grabbing her.
“I saw the mother reaching out her hand, but she doesn’t quite catch her,” Mr. Cruz said, speaking in Spanish. “So, at that moment I decided to quicken my pace because the danger is imminent, and I see a car coming.”
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