BYU staffers coming home from recruiting event aid woman after car crash
BYU football staffers were able to help a woman whose car had slid down an embankment over the weekend as they returned from a recruiting event.
According to the Daily Herald, members of BYU’s staff were driving back from a snowmobiling trip near Sundance, Utah. That’s when football analyst Matt Ah You saw that an SUV had slid off the road and nearly 20 feet down an embankment and was straddling a stream.
“The girl was outside of her door, crying,” Ah You said. “She was lucky that the car didn’t tip because it was very narrow. Her car was straddling the stream, but tilted a little bit and leaning. If she went any further, the car could very well have tipped onto the driver’s side or been completely in the water. We tried to find the safest way down through the snow on the 20-foot drop.”
Ah You, [BYU grad assistant Harvey] Unga and BYU Vice President Matthew Richardson all climbed down the embankment to get to the woman.
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Ah You even said the eight recruits who BYU had taken on the trip stopped and got out of the cars they were in to go help the woman. He told them to stay on the road for their own safety.
The woman did not have any reported injuries.
BYU, like all other FBS schools, can start to sign recruits on Wednesday, the first day of the 2019 early signing period. According to Rivals, BYU has 11 verbal commits for its 2019 recruiting class, including four-star quarterback Jacob Conover.
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