Tinsley, a female Shiloh shepherd from Lebanon, New Hampshire, miraculously saved her owner and another man after a vehicle accident as she ushered authorities to the crash site.
At first, police officers led by Trooper Tom Sandberg of Lebanon Police Department thought that the dog was loose on the highway, so they tried to catch it. When the police got close to her, Tinsley would run away and then stop and look back to try to get them to follow her. Then, she stood on top of an embankment and looked down to show the officers a pickup truck that had crashed.
There, they found two men who had been thrown out of the car as it rolled down the embankment. It was then that the police found out that the dog belonged to one of those men.
“This was almost like a real-life Lassie situation,” said Lt. Dan Baldassarre of New Hampshire State Police to WPTZ news channel, “It's really quite remarkable. This dog definitely saved their lives. I don't think they would have survived the night given the temperatures.”
The police officers called for medical assistance and the crash victims were taken to the hospital for treatment.
How fortunate for the crash victims that Tinsley was there. If it weren’t for her heroism, they would not have made it!
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