Looking for good Samaritan who helped boy hit by car

SEATTLE — A mother is searching for the good Samaritan who helped her son last week after he was hit by a car in West Seattle.

Paula Craig said she was at work on Monday, April 24, when she received a call from her teenage son’s cell phone. A woman’s voice was on the other end, saying her son had been hit by a car.

She said her heart sank.

“Panic. Absolute panic. I was scared. I didn’t know how bad it was. She literally talked me off the ledge,” Craig said.

The woman said she was a nurse and told Craig that her son was OK. Craig then got in her car and drove toward the accident, at 41^st Avenue SW and SW Admiral Way.

Noah Craig, a 17-year-old student at West Seattle High School, said the accident happened so fast he didn’t realize he had been hit.

“I didn’t think it was going to hit me. And then by the time it hit me and I was on the ground, I was like, ‘what just happened to me?’” he said.

He came away from the accident with scratches and soreness, but nothing worse.

He told KIRO 7 he feels guilty for not having looked more carefully before crossing the street. After he landed on the ground, his classmate held his head, the driver stopped, and the nurse appeared, saying she had seen what happened.

She checked Noah for broken bones, called his mother, and waited with him even after paramedics left.

“She was an angel. There is no other word for it. How she was here at that time, and to stay with him, meant more to me than anything. Just as a mom, you just don’t know that people will do that. And that’s heartwarming that someone did this for my child,” Craig said.

She said she was in shock when she arrived and took her son immediately to the doctor. Neither she nor her son ever found out the woman’s name.

“I don’t know who she is. All I know is what she did for me is huge,” she said.

If you know who this nurse is, please email nchen@kiro7.com, and KIRO 7's Natasha Chen will connect you with the family.

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