Good Samaritan Credited with Saving Woman's Life After Her Car Veers Off Road and Flips Into Canal

Rob Reynolds of Arvada, Colorado, once entertained the possibility of becoming a first responder. But instead of becoming a firefighter, he ended up deciding to dedicate his life to helping people in a different way.

“Went to EMT school and then… I just sort of felt compelled to become a therapist,” he said, according to KMGH-TV.

But a strange pattern has emerged over the years, one that has perhaps made him wonder if he chose the right path. As of July 10, Reynolds has assisted people in three separate accidents, all accidents he witnessed and raced to help with.

“It happens once and you think, ‘Well, you know, we’re bound to experience an accident at some point,'” he said.

“Happens twice and it’s kind of like, ‘OK.'”

“A third time is kind of like, ‘Well, is this a theme in my life now?'”

The third time involved a woman who veered off the road after getting too close to the side and overcorrecting.

“I just noticed her on the right side of me,” Reynolds recalled. “She sort of started drifting towards the curb and kind of hit the curb and bounced.

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“I’m with the dispatcher and ran over, and I said, ‘Oh, my gosh, she’s in the canal. She’s upside down. We got to get … we got to get down there.'”

And he went down there, immediately, along with two other witnesses who sprang into action. In what Reynolds described as a miracle, he was able to find her and get her out of the flipped,