A family is looking for their ‘Good Samaritans' tonight after a serious accident Sunday afternoon leaves their grandmother with severe facial injuries.
"I slipped and fell on a foreign object, like a rod," Joan Erbst tells TV6, "I hit that and I mean I went like a head dive."
Joan Erbst says she was walking home from McDonald's with her grandchildren, less than a block away from her apartment when she hit the concrete face first.
"I hit like somebody catapulted my face to the sidewalk," she says, "I cut my lip, I have 12 stitches in my upper lip, my front teeth were knocked loose, I have broken my nose, and I have extensive bruising."
"I have to say it's very very painful, on a scale of 1-10, it was 10 plus," she says of her injuries.
But Erbst says it could've been worse, had it not been for two strangers.
"Some very nice people came by, took me to the nearest hospital, and took me to the emergency, made sure I was assisted, made sure we were taken care of and then left quietly," she says.
Erbst says a man and a woman in a red SUV helped calm down her young grandchildren at the hospital, then left without giving their names.
Now she and her family are looking for them to get a chance to say thank you.
"They are just guardian angels, and I so appreciate it," Erbst says, "I wish I could do so much more."
But she says one good thing has come out of this painful experience, reassurance.
"I know there are some real guardian angels out there," she says, "We have some good neighbors."
