By Kenneth C. Crowe II
The Times Union
TROY, N.Y. — Rookie city Firefighter Jason Lucey said his recently completed training automatically kicked in when he revived a 4-year-old girl who was run down and badly injured with her mother while trying to cross busy Hoosick Street during rush-hour traffic Wednesday morning.
Sarah Bingham, 19, of 8th Street, and her daughter, Amy Vonwoert, had just left the Stewart’s Shop at Hoosick and Tenth streets at 7:35 a.m. with a bag containing chocolate milk and chips. They were starting north across Hoosick Street — where the intersection is seven lanes wide and 47,000 vehicles drive through daily — when an eastbound SUV driven by John Coleman, 30, of Clifton Park struck them, police said.
Lucey rushed from Stewart’s, where he had stopped to buy his morning cup of coffee on his way to work, to see the mother and daughter lying on the pavement. Their shoes were in the road, amid an accident scene littered with a mix of chocolate milk, chips and feathers from a down jacket. He saw that Amy was not breathing, her mouth and lips covered with blood.
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