Fallbrook residents save mans life after he collapses NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

Rocky Dixon feared for his life. He was behind the wheel of his Toyota Tacoma when the world around him started to go dark.

Thank God he lives in Fallbrook.

Somehow, the retired woodworker was on his back in the middle of an intersection. Dixon was trying to drive himself to the hospital on Sept. 30, when he realized he wasn’t going to make it. The 72-year-old pulled over and apparently rolled out of the driver’s seat right in front of Potter Junior High School on Reche Road in Fallbrook.

As luck would have it, two former lifeguards were in the car behind Dixon when he rolled out of his truck.

“They pulled over immediately, jumped out of their car, ran to me,” Dixon recalled a week later.

The two women found Dixon bleeding profusely from his wrist. It was the result of a bonehead mistake.

“It was just a very crazy thing,” Dixon admitted sheepishly.

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