On Friday afternoon, a student crossing Laclede Avenue was struck by a vehicle and suffered a fractured skull.

Within 20 seconds, another student, who happened to be an Emergency Medical Technician, stopped his truck and tended to the victim.

Senior Jon McIntosh was driving home after work when he saw a student in the middle of the road. He spotted blood and immediately stopped his truck in the middle of Laclede, ran to the victim with a medical supply bag and assessed the situation.

Shortly after McIntosh arrived on the scene and assessed the condition of the victim, the ambulance parked at the Shell gas station on Grand Boulevard arrived.

Ambulance workers and Macintosh placed a cervical collar on the victim and got him onto a backboard. Soon a city ambulance arrived and took the victim to the SLU Hospital Emergency Room.

The victim was released from the hospital Tuesday in good condition.

McIntosh, after being an EMT for 2 1/2 years and working for Abbott Ambulance for two years, has seen many accidents and knows how to handle emergencies.

“I felt as if I had a moral obligation to stop,” McIntosh said. “I would want someone to do the same for me.”

McIntosh provided basic care, preventing the victim from further injury. “There really wasn’t much I could do without a full ambulance.” He also kept students that had gathered around the victim calm until the city ambulance and Department of Public Safety officers arrived.