Two quick-thinking female runners helped save the life of a male runner during a half marathon. When a man collapsed in front of Caroline Easton and Carolyn Bell during Dorset’s Chase Half, the pair, who didn’t know each other, sprang into action, performing CPR. Ms Easton did compressions and counting while Ms Bell did the breathing, until paramedics arrived.
“Anybody [who knows CPR] would have done it”, Ms Bell told the BBC. “You do the courses and don’t think anything of them. Then something happens and you have to actually use what you’ve learned, and, well, he’s alive.”