His name is Ben Hedger .
His mother had a seizure while travelling at 60mph. She blacked out.
When he realised that something was amiss, he put on the hazard lights and steered the car to the hard-shoulder where it stalled.
"He said he just did what he had to do otherwise we would have died."
He's probably right - he probably had no choice.
But he did do it and that makes him a hero.
The car was a Ford Ka, it will have been damaged bouncing along the central reservation but she won't be behind the wheel for a good while now - if ever. But she is alive. And so is Ben. And so is everyone else who was on the A120 near Colchester at the time.
So a good news story on the run-up to Christmas while The World is being crap.
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