Heart-pounding video shows the moment a recently homeless Good Samaritan races in to save a baby in a stroller from rolling into a busy six-lane California highway.
Now-viral footage from Monday shows an unidentified woman reacting in horror as her stroller starts rolling away as she gets out of her car in a parking lot in Hesperia.
As she tries to race after it, she trips and slams face-first into the sidewalk — falling again as she tried to get back to her feet as the stroller rolls in high winds toward the highway.
As the stroller appears to be just feet from fast-moving cars, a man dressed all in black runs up from the right and stops it just in time.
“Oh! You are the man!” one person says while watching back the footage in a clip shared online.
“Life-saver right there, man,” another says. “Perfect timing — at the right place and the right time.”
The hero was later identified by NBCLA as Ron Nessman, who was in the area for a job interview to further help escape several years of homelessness that only ended recently when he started living with his sister, Donna Gunderson, who said her “heart dropped” when she saw the video.
“I knew I could get it and I got it,” hero Nessman told the local station.
“And I’m thankful for that because I really wouldn’t want to see the end result if I wasn’t there,” he said.
The woman who lost control of the stroller — the baby’s great-aunt — injured her knees in her falls, said Nessman, who was seen hugging her once he safely returned the uninjured baby.
“She tried everything she possibly could to get up,” Nessman said.
“Her knees were bleeding when I got up to her. She was still shocked and she was crying,” he said.
One copy of the clip shared on Twitter had been viewed more than 56 million times by Thursday, with commentators saying they watched “with my heart in my throat” and calling it “TOO damn close!”
“Man it’s like one of those dreams where you can’t run!” one viewer wrote.