Working the drive-thru window, Pedro Viloria is no stranger to seeing crazy things. I’d be lying if I said I’ve never gone through the drive-thru in my pajamas before. But Tuesday was different.
During his breakfast shift at a Miami-area McDonald’s, Pedro encountered an off-duty police officer who was buying food with her kids.
As she approached his window, Pedro could tell that something was wrong. The officer was struggling to breathe.
“I see she’s like inflating her neck, like trying to breathe, like ‘ahh,’ and basically I thought something was going wrong,” he said.
And that wasn’t his only indicator. Soon, he heard her kids screaming frantically from the backseat.
“Her kids were screaming, ‘Mother, mother stop it! Mother, what are you doing?'” explained Pedro.
That’s when things took a scary turn. The woman’s foot slipped off her brake pedal and her vehicle began rolling away. Pedro immediately jumped into action and dove out the window as the woman lost consciousness. McDonald’s camera footage caught the quick-thinking hero in action.
“I ran as fast as I could, put myself in front of the car,” he told NBC Miami.