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<P>This is the happy ending story of a Seeing Eye<BR>graduate who was hit by a
car last year. <BR>From the Chicago Sun Times-- <BR>Chicago, Illinois, USA:
<BR><BR>The power of 8 strangers<BR>March 5, 2007<BR>BY<BR>TOM
McNAMEE<BR>Sun-Times Columnist<BR><BR>How strange to see the blind woman
kneeling to pet her<BR>guide dog. How strange to see her even walking
again,<BR>breathing normally, let alone kneeling down<BR>and standing
straight.<BR><BR>Here she is, at Winchester and Foster on the North<BR>Side,
listening for sounds of traffic before crossing<BR>at a stop sign.<BR><BR>It was
at this very corner one year ago Tuesday that,<BR>by any reckoning of physics
and fate, she should have<BR>died.<BR><BR>"She was mangled like a pretzel," says
Tom Keevers,<BR>the man who saved her life.<BR><BR>"She was under the car, and
it was crushing her. There<BR>was a lot of blood. I could not imagine she was
even<BR>alive."<BR><BR>But she was. And she is.<BR><BR>And now we know just how
many Chicagoans it takes to<BR>pick up and move a 3,100-pound Acura.<BR><BR>Tom
Keevers plus seven.<BR><BR>In a pinch.<BR><BR>Can't remember being hit<BR>It was
midafternoon on March 6, 2006, and Heloise<BR>Bouille, then 47, was taking a
walk with her guide<BR>dog, Annette. Bouille worked from home as
a<BR>translator,<BR>turning French into English, and she always
looked<BR>forward to these walking breaks -- the exercise, the<BR>city sounds
and smells, the wind on her face.<BR><BR>At Winchester and Foster, Bouille took
particular care<BR>because, as she well knew, a blind person crossing
a<BR>street in a big city faces as much danger at<BR>a small intersection with
stop signs as at a busy<BR>intersection with traffic lights. When there
are<BR>lights, you can listen for the full cycle of signal<BR>changes -- from
red to green to red again -- and know<BR>exactly when it's safest to step from
the curb.<BR><BR>After listening carefully and checking with Annette,<BR>Bouille
began to cross Winchester.<BR><BR>And that, mercifully, is all she
remembers.<BR><BR>It was an older Acura, driven by an 18-year-old kid<BR>who
worked in a restaurant. He must have blown the<BR>stop sign.<BR><BR>She doesn't
remember being hit. Or being mowed under.<BR>Or being dragged 30 yards down
Foster.<BR><BR>And, of course, she never heard the woman on the<BR>sidewalk in
the Muslim veil scream.<BR><BR>"There is a woman under the car," the woman
cried,<BR>waving her arms. "There is a woman under the car."<BR><BR>'A lot of
crazy people'<BR>Keevers, 43, was having a beer with a couple of<BR>friends in
K's Dugout, a tavern on the corner. After a<BR>day of selling ads for the Yellow
Pages, he was<BR>celebrating<BR>one friend's birthday.<BR><BR>Looking out the
window, he saw the screaming woman.<BR><BR>"Chicago," he thought to himself,
"has a lot of crazy<BR>people."<BR><BR>But the woman kept screaming, and
something told<BR>Keevers this was different.<BR><BR>"I'm gonna step outside and
see what the problem is,"<BR>he said.<BR><BR>Keevers' dad was a Chicago cop.
Maybe that's where he<BR>gets it. Three years ago, Tom got an award from
the<BR>FBI for tackling a bank robber on Lawrence Ave.<BR><BR>"What's wrong?" he
asked, approaching in that wary way<BR>of a Chicago lifer.<BR><BR>"There's a
woman under that car!" the woman in the<BR>veil cried again. "I saw a lady
walking across the<BR>street and, all the sudden, she
disappeared.<WBR>"<BR><BR>Turning to look at the car, Keevers saw the dog
first.<BR>It was crying and trying to crawl under the car.<BR><BR>And then he
saw the broken woman.<BR><BR>"There is no way," he thought. "She's
completely<BR>crushed."<BR><BR>But he had to try.<BR><BR>'Call 911'<BR>Keevers
jumped in front of a CTA bus and shouted,<BR>"Stop!"<BR><BR>He barked to the
driver: "Call 911."<BR><BR>Two men on the bus ran out to help.<BR><BR>Keevers
called his friends out of the bar. He waved<BR>down two or three more
cars.<BR><BR>Now there were eight men, mostly strangers to each<BR>other. But
acting as one, they surrounded the car,<BR>reached down to the chassis and got
firm grips.<BR><BR>"On the count of three," Keevers said. "One . . . two<BR>. .
. three."<BR><BR>They lifted the car, staggered to the middle of the<BR>street
and dropped it.<BR><BR>Heloise Bouille was free, though twisted and
horribly<BR>still. Annette rushed to her side.<BR><BR>An ambulance roared up.
Keevers felt sure they were<BR>too late.<BR><BR>But then he saw a bloody bubble
burst from the woman's<BR>mouth.<BR><BR>She was breathing.<BR><BR>'Am I
OK?'<BR>Bouille suffered severe brain injury, a ruptured<BR>diaphragm, a
collapsed lung, multiple broken ribs, a<BR>demolished femur, a broken pelvis and
two broken bones<BR>in her back. She is held together today with metal<BR>plates
and screws.<BR><BR>But to the amazement of every cop, lawyer and doctor<BR>who
has followed her story, she has made a remarkable<BR>recovery.<BR><BR>First she
walked down a hospital hall. Then around the<BR>block. Then, encouraged by her
husband, Robert Hall,<BR>who also is blind, she went back to taking her<BR>long
city walks. With Annette, of course.<BR><BR>"It took me so long to recover,"
Bouille told me last<BR>week. "The physical part is one thing, but
the<BR>emotional part is another. There is always this<BR>thought:<BR>'Am I
OK?'"<BR><BR>As for the teenager who was driving that day, he was<BR>nowhere to
be seen at the moment Keevers and the<BR>others came to Bouille's aid. But he
did not run away.<BR>The police questioned him on the scene.<BR><BR>The young
man was recently convicted in Traffic Court<BR>on two violations stemming from
this accident --<BR>failure to exercise due care with a pedestrian
and<BR>failure to exercise due care with a pedestrian with a<BR>disability. He
was fined $500.<BR><BR>What's the kid's name? Hope you don't mind, but
I<BR>don't think I'll say. From what I hear, he's not so<BR>bad -- just a
teenager.<BR><BR>'Absolutely flabbergasted'<BR>And then there are all the
heroes. I hate that word --<BR>hero. So overused.<BR><BR>But what's a hero if
not that Muslim woman who cried<BR>for help, if not Keevers, if not every man
who lifted<BR>that car?<BR><BR>"If those guys hadn't lifted that car, Heloise
would<BR>have been dead or brain-damaged for life," said her<BR>lawyer, Jim
Zouras. "She was moments -- seconds<BR>-- from being dead."<BR><BR>Ble said she
wonders if there might be some big award<BR>the city could give
Keevers.<BR><BR>"I am absolutely flabbergasted by what he did,"
she<BR>said.<BR><BR>I asked Keevers if he could remember what everybody<BR>did
once the ambulance had rushed Bouille away.<BR><BR>The guys from the bus, he
said, got back on the bus.<BR>And the bus driver drove off. And the guys in the
cars<BR>got back on the road.<BR><BR>And, I asked, what about you?<BR><BR>"I
went back in the bar," Keevers said, "and had a<BR>beer."<BR><BR>Tom McNamee's
"The Chicago Way" column runs on<BR>Mondays.<BR><BR>© Copyright 2007 Sun-Times
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