It’s takes a village to help Gov. Andrew Cuomo become a hero.

The governor made headlines with his rescue of a trapped driver on the BQE Monday, but Cuomo may not have been able to save the day if he didn’t get hand from a corrections officer who showed up at the scene.

Sandra Germain, 44, also stopped to help when she saw a delivery van tipped over into a highway divider in Brooklyn — and was able to make a big assist by giving Cuomo the specialized knife he used to cut the trapped driver’s seat belt.

“We pulled over to assess the situation, and the driver was hanging sideways on the inside. The governor’s employee asked us if we had anything to break the glass. I had my ‘911 knife’ and I gave it to him and [the governor] cut the seatbelt,” Germain told The Post in a phone interview.

Germain, who said she arrived at the scene just moments after Cuomo’s entourage, have been driving in a corrections van that had no inmates in it.

“He was shaken up,” she said of the driver, who was hanging sideways on the inside of the van before Cuomo personally climbed up and released him with the hooked knife, which is a typical part of corrections officer’s equipment.

“He was happy that we got him out of there. I could tell he was OK and told him to sit down. I can only imagine the shock,” Germain said of the man in the van.

She said there were three cars involved in the pileup, the tipped-over van, a Honda Pilot and a flatbed.

A spokeswoman for Regina Caterers, the company that owns the tipped vehicle, said the driver is “doing good,” when contacted by The Post Tuesday.

Germain said she was impressed with Cuomo’s actions.

“I was not surprised because just growing up seeing how my parents felt about his father, he seemed to emulate his dad,” she gushed.

“He’s just a people’s person, just a human being assisting and getting involved hands off he jumped up onto the median and it was just beautiful. I was in awe.”

“New Yorkers help New Yorkers in their time of need and we deeply appreciate Ms. Germain assistance in this potentially serious situation,” a spokesperson for the governor said.