Williams Baptist University issued the following announcement on Dec. 3.
The Williams Baptist University Board of Trustees met in regular session Friday and recognized WBU student Bailee Haskins for her life-saving actions following a recent accident.
Haskins, a WBU senior from Walnut Ridge, was with friends in rural Lawrence County recently when a woman rushed up to them saying her husband had been injured and trapped nearby in an ATV accident. They reached the scene before emergency personnel could arrive and found the man pinned in the wreckage, bleeding profusely from a badly injured arm.
Realizing the need to stem the blood loss, Haskins called her father to find out how to apply a tourniquet. Her father, Alan Haskins, heads the Fire Training Center at Black River Technical College and is a former Walnut Ridge fire chief, and he gave Bailey instructions over the phone. She fashioned a tourniquet from the ATV’s window seal and a stick and applied it successfully.
When emergency personnel arrived at the scene, they credited Baileyes quick action with likely saving the man’s life. WBU President Dr. Stan Norman read a statement on the incident from Brian Luetschwager, director of the criminal justice department at WBU.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Williams Baptist University
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