Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre had been killing time while waiting for their wives, police say.
They ended up finding Matthew Reum, 27, of Mishawaka, whose truck had crashed off Interstate 94 on 20 December.
In hospital, Mr Reum had one of his legs amputated and is now in intensive care, his union says.
Mr Garcia said he had seen the wrecked truck and was moving an airbag out of the way when Mr Reum “woke up”.
The driver told the men he had been trapped and pinned in his seat under the bridge near Portage, he recalled at a news conference held by the state police.
“He tried yelling and screaming, but nobody would hear him,” Mr Garcia recalled the man telling him.
“It was just quiet - just the sound of the water.”
Mr Reum, a union welder, had had no food but survived by drinking rain water.
Okay, so it looks like a pickup, not a semi.
Still, I’m trying g to figure out how he wasn’t missed for six days- one of which was a major is holiday.
Still, I’m trying g to figure out how he wasn’t missed for six days- one of which was a major is holiday.
I don’t think it’s too difficult… Working to live survive, no time/energy to develop a significant other, a lack of a ‘family’. Honestly, from my perspective those traits all seem pretty prevalent. What with all of those ‘male loneliness epidemic’ being reported.
Working to live survive
So his work never noticed he was missing? unless he’s simply that unreliable, most bosses would have called their emergency contact and been like ‘uh, what’s up?’; and it’s doubtful that there would have been literally nobody.
That’s insane!
A diver might ask, “was it an Airgas truck carrying trimix??”
FTFA, it seems the truck wasn’t submerged. Otherwise I don’t wanna think about that dive chart
