Fisherman Ends up Frantically Trying to Stop Traffic After Noticing Tiny Sparkle Underneath Bridge

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When Matthew R. Reum drove his truck off the road and into a river on Dec. 20, he thought he’d met his end.

After six days stuck in his 2016 Dodge Ram, hidden under a bridge from traffic passing overhead, he was even more convinced the end was near.

But that’s when two men looking for a good fishing spot saw something shiny through the trees and eventually saw his wrecked vehicle there, according to The New York Times.

Reum, 27, wasn’t alone in thinking that he was a goner. Mario Garcia and Nivardo Delatorre, the would-be fishermen who found him, figured he had to be dead as well.

But when Garcia pushed aside the truck’s deployed airbag and touched what he thought was Reum’s lifeless body, the accident victim suddenly woke up.

“He was very happy to see us,” Garcia told reporters at a news conference, according to the Times. “I’ve never seen a relief like that.”

Delatorre immediately went up the hill to the highway to seek help for Reum, a native of Mishawaka, Indiana, about an hour away from where he was found in his truck.

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