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Mar 30, 2009 8:12 am US/Mountain

Good Samaritan Recovers After Being Hit On I-25

Written by Karlyn Tilley

DENVER (CBS4) ― Sitting from his hospital bed at Denver Health Medical Center on Sunday, Cory Palm found a moment to joke about the blizzard of 2009.

"You know sometimes they say no good deed goes unpunished," he said.

In reality, though, Palm knows he's lucky to be alive.

Palm, 29, was on his way to see his mom in Longmont early Friday afternoon when he saw a man trying to dig out a stuck car on the shoulder of Interstate 25 near 92nd Avenue.

The car had gotten stuck on Thursday while the blizzard warning was in effect and the Denver metro area was getting pounded with snow.

Palm stopped, deciding he could help the man. He was working to hook up the two cars for towing, when it happened.

"I was in between the two cars there and I looked up and saw a green Jeep Wrangler just lose control."

He tried to get out of the way, but it was too late.

"(It) hit my truck and hit me and I flew about 20 feet."

Palm says he was conscious the entire time. Afterwards he asked a woman who stopped to help if she would call his mom.

"I could hear him in the background hollering, so I knew he was in a lot of pain," recalls Cory's mom, Lynette Lussier.

Both of the bones in Palm's leg were crushed and a metal rod had to be inserted to put it back in place. He also has a torn spleen, deflated lung, broken rib and he lost a third of his kidney.

"I'm ecstatic that I'm still here. For all intensive purposes I really think that I should've been dead."

"A car going highway speed hit me dead on and I don't know how I got out of that one alive at all."

Palm is not thinking about the painful days to come, or the medical bills that will pile up. But his family is worried, since Palm is a self-employed electrician with no health insurance. And while he heals, he cannot work.

To top it off, he has been told that his car may be totaled.

Still, his spirits are high, "Obviously I'm in a lot of pain but I'm alive. I'm going to be able to walk again."

And he says he'll keep trying to help people in the future.

Additional Resources

A fun was set up on Monday at Community Banks of Colorado for Palm. Checks can be made out to "Cory Palm Good Samaritan Fund" and sent to:

Community Banks of Colorado
210 N. Mill St.
Aspen, CO 81611

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