North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey on Tuesday, Jan. 25, will honor a former Guilford County sheriff’s deputy for the heroic efforts he displayed on Interstate 85 just days before the Thanksgiving holiday.
According to news reports, Keith O. Mangum was traveling on I-85 when he witnessed a car that had made a U-turn and started driving north in the southbound lanes. The car crashed into a tractor-trailer and then hit a passenger car.
After stopping his own car, Mangum jumped the guardrail in the median, pulled the unresponsive woman who’d been traveling the wrong way out of the car and performed CPR on her until she began moving. Mangum and another motorist who’d pulled over to help, a nurse, stayed with the woman until first responders arrived on the scene.
The award will be presented at Mangum’s alma mater, N.C. A&T State University. The presentation will take place at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Deese Ballroom at the N.C. A&T State University Student Center, 1403 John W. Mitchell Drive, Greensboro, N.C. 27405. The ballroom is located on the second floor.