WEST FREEMAN TOWNSHIP – A newspaper carrier who drove up a driveway to deliver a paper Monday helped rescue an injured customer.

Sun Journal carrier Kay Brackley said she doesn’t usually drive up the driveway but she was late because of the stormy weather and brought the paper up Lois Curtis’ long driveway to her house. When she did, she spotted Curtis’s legs on the cement floor of the woman’s garage. The senior citizen had fallen and broken her hip.

“I flung the newspaper and then I saw her feet,” Brackley said.

Curtis had fallen when she went out to feed her birds, Brackley said.

By the time Brackley arrived, Curtis was laying on the cement floor. She had dragged herself into the garage and got her door open and turned the key in her car to use the cellphone to call for help, Brackley said.

“She’s a tough one,” Brackley said. “She never said anything about the pain.”

Curtis called an ambulance, and Brackley stayed with her until it arrived. Brackley said Curtis is expected to be operated on Tuesday, Brackley said.

It is the second time within two years that Brackley has been in the right place at the right time.

Last year, she noticed an elderly woman hadn’t picked up her paper for several days.

Brackley called the Sheriff’s Department and it was discovered that the woman had fallen in her bathroom and couldn’t get up.

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