[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 17 (Monday, February 2, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             WELL WISHES FOR MAYOR COLLINS OF TOLEDO, OHIO

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to give reassurance and hope to Sandy 
Collins and the family of the mayor of Toledo, Mike Collins, who, 
yesterday, was involved in a very serious automotive accident. He 
apparently had a heart attack while he was driving after trying to 
prepare the city crews for the level 3 snowfall that was about to come.
  Then there was the heroic act that has saved his life, though he is 
in critical condition at the University of Toledo Medical Center. A 
woman named Evelyn Johnson--mother of eight children and grandmother of 
five--saw his SUV that had crashed into this telephone pole. She 
stopped her car on her way to work, and she and another man, a good 
Samaritan who came along, had to pry him out of the car. It was still 
running. He still had his foot on the gas, but he was completely 
unconscious. She and the other gentleman administered CPR at the 
direction of the 911 crew in the city of Toledo.
  I am so proud of my hometown and the love and the care and the 
preparedness that they demonstrated to care for our mayor. We pray to 
God that he will fully recover and that his injuries will be healed. We 
give comfort to his wife, Sandy. We know she is at his side. Our entire 
community reaches out to them. And we congratulate Mrs. Johnson for her 
incredible heroism in helping our mayor.

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