University of Michigan (U-M) Head Coach Jim Harbaugh took time off from his football activities to stop at I-94 and assist two people part of a rollover crash last Tuesday afternoon.

According to U-M Athletic Department spokesman Dave Ablauf, he noted a police report from the Michigan State Police that recounted how Harbaugh and fellow staff member from the football program, Jim Minick, helped out.

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The report stated that the two football staff members stopped at I-94 and assisted two passengers of a car crashed at approximately 2:40 in the afternoon.

The two people in the car crash were a 53-year old driving the vehicle and a 73-year old woman in the passenger seat. They were both wearing seatbelts during the crash.

The two good Samaritans then administered first aid to both patients and kept them warm with coats until emergency personnel arrived on the scene. Afterwards, the victims were both transported to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital by Huron Valley Ambulance Services.

Robert Vogel, Chief of the Ann Arbor Fire Department Battalion, said that the car had been on I-94 westbound when it flipped multiple times, ending up on the eastbound side near State Street. The car was a 2003 Jeep Cherokee.

The police report said that the car had hit the media before traveling up a snow embankment and landing on the other side of the road.

Emergency crews took to the highway for more than one hour as they helped out the injured and cleared away the debris from the car crash.

The car crash was one of only 50 that Huron Valley Ambulance Services were responding to between seven in the morning and three in the afternoon. The crashes were a result of morning snow and an ice storm that left the roads in a poor condition all throughout Southeast Michigan. 

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