A guide dog-in-training earned his stripes Monday morning when he
alerted his handler and a fellow trainer to an out-of-control car
seconds before it barreled into them.
Todd Jurek, a training supervisor for Guide Dogs For The Blind,
was accompanying O'Neill, an 18-month-old labrador, and apprentice
instructor Danielle Alvarado, who was blindfolded, on a field test in
San Rafael, Calif., when a black car nearly backed into them, the Marin Independent Journal reports.
Security cameras show O'Neill spotting the vehicle, and the group immediately running for safety.
He [the dog] reacted probably two seconds before I did," Jurek told KTVU. "He turned around saw it, then I turned around saw it.
"The worst could have happened ... It's pretty incredible nobody got hurt," he said.
According to the Journal, the driver was a 93-year-old woman and the DMV is investigating her driver's license.
O'Neill is in the process of completing his testing and will be paired with a blind client in two to three weeks.
H/T: Gawker
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