A trucker’s selflessness is on display after he had a heart attack while driving, managed to avoid hitting anyone, and then when he was resuscitated by medics immediately asked “Did I hurt anybody?”

Driver Jeff Ronek, who just turned 57 on February 16th, was driving on Iowa Highway 5 when he suffered a heart attack. He was able to guide his truck into the median without hitting anyone before he lost consciousness, and that’s where two medics on their way back to the fire station found him.





Jason Kling, a paramedic, and Kayla Schark, a 19-year-old EMT, stopped to check on the trucker thinking they would find bumps and bruises, and instead found him unconscious in the cab. When Ronek didn’t have a pulse, they pulled him to the ground and 19-year-old Schark started CPR while Kling grabbed a defibrillator.

Kling had to shock Ronek six times before he was able to restart his heart.

According to Schark, despite not even knowing where he was, the first words out of Ronek’s mouth when he regained consciousness were “Did I hurt anybody?”

“The touching thing was he wasn’t concerned about him, he was concerned about if he hurt anybody,” Kling said according to WHOtv. “He kept asking ‘did I hurt anybody?’ And we’re like ‘no’ and so with him being a truck driver we figured out he was afraid that maybe he had run his truck into someone. After all of that, his concern was other people’s well fare [sic], that’s just a great thing.”

Source: desmoinesregister, kcci, whotv, radioiowa, kcrg