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Sault woman searching for 'angel' who helped husband following motorcycle crash (2 photos)

Tally Dziergas says her husband would've 'bled out' and died if not for the help of a good samaritan

A Sault Ste. Marie woman is searching for the person responsible for helping her husband after he sustained extensive injuries during a motorcycle accident Monday afternoon.

Tally Dziergas says that her husband, Chester Dziergas, was riding his black 2001 Harley Davidson westbound on Highway 556 in the Island Lake area shortly after 3 p.m. when disaster struck.

“He swerved to save a racoon, because he’s an animal lover,” Dziergas told SooToday from Sault Area Hospital, where her husband is recovering following two days of surgery. “He lost control, he hit the pole with his left leg, completely shattered it from ankle to thigh.”

“The bike fell on to his right leg, into the ditch, which shattered his hip.”

Dziergas says that Chester was still in the ditch, bones protruding from his left leg and bleeding profusely, when he was spotted by a passerby around two hours later.

“He just started breaking branches and pulling leaves and trying to make a little bit of a clearing around himself,” Dziergas said. “He was waving his hands and yelling ‘help me’ for two hours, and finally somebody seen it.”

The good samaritan, according to Chester’s account, stayed with him in the ditch until first responders arrived on scene.

“We just want to find him, because if he had been there any longer, he would’ve bled out,” Dziergas said. “He wouldn’t be here.”

“That man’s my hero.”

Chester was then taken to Sault Area Hospital.

Soon afterwards, Dziergas got a phone call from the emergency room.

She says that she had no idea what she was walking into when she went to the hospital.

“I thought I had lost my husband,” Dziergas said. “Very, very scary situation.”

Chester underwent surgery to repair his shattered left leg Monday night, following by hip replacement surgery on Tuesday.

“They call it the ‘twilight zone,’” said Dziergas. “It’s not quite an induced coma, but he’s heavily sedated.”

Dziergas says that her husband now has a steel rod inside of his left leg, with a series of smaller steel rods running across his knee to stabilize it before undergoing knee replacement surgery.

Dziergas says that she and her family are now looking for the person - or people - responsible for helping Chester that day.

Although she is still trying to piece everything together, Dziergas thinks that her husband’s rescuer was a man driving a black pickup truck, and that another person may have been on the scene.  

Dziergas and family have been trying to track down the good samaritan this past week, putting the word out on social media.

“I would love nothing more - the whole family would love nothing more - than to shake his hand and say ‘thank you’ for saving my husband’s life,” Dziergas said. “That he is my hero, and my husband’s angel.”


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James Hopkin is a reporter for SooToday in Sault Ste. Marie
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