From The Prattville Progress:
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| Rural mail carrier Mark Knight, a 15-year employee of the Prattville Post Office, has been given credit for possibly saving the life of a man he pulled from a burning vehicle last Wednesday. (Don Fletcher, Progress) It wasn't snow, it wasn't rain that temporarily stayed a local U.S. Postal Service employee from his appointed rounds last week. It wasn't heat or gloom of night that caused a slight disruption in completion of the postal carrier's route. Instead, the Prattville postman was drawn away from his duties by the sights and sounds of a nearby car crash as he was making his daily delivery June 28. Forgetting his postal motto only momentarily, the USPS employee rushed to the scene, just a few yards away from where he was working. Mark Knight, whose rural route takes him along the north-central sector of Autauga County, said he was stuffing letters, bills and advertising flyers into the mailbox of a County Road 85 resident when the mishap occurred. Suddenly, just a few yards away, a vehicle ran off County Road 57 in a curve and crashed into the front yard of one of Knight's postal customers. Although the mail carrier downplayed his part in the incident, Knight's biggest fan said her husband -- whom she labeled as a "modest mailman" -- performed a heroic deed. |
