“It was a miracle”: FBI agent saves teen hit by car
Published: May 14, 2007
A Stoneham teen just home from the hospital says she owes her life to an off-duty Boston FBI agent who gave her CPR after she was struck by a car and left covered in blood as her traumatized friends stood frozen in fear.
Good Samaritan Pete Bickmore, 49, was on his way to get ice cream Thursday night when he saw Cassie Stockbridge, 16, bleeding heavily from her head and lying in the middle of Main Street. She had no pulse and wasn’t breathing.
Bickmore thought she was dead.
“It was a miracle. I kept talking to her. I was telling her, ‘Come on, wake up. Come on,’ ” said Bickmore, who performed CPR on Stockbridge even as she bled from the mouth. “She came alive. It was just incredible.”
Stockbridge, who was released yesterday from Massachusetts General Hospital, said she owes her life to Bickmore, whom she met at the hospital on Friday.
Stockbridge said she was crossing the four-lane road Thursday at 8:30 p.m. with her two friends when she was hit, but doesn’t remember being struck or anything after that.
“People told me that he showed up right after and it was a miracle because if he hadn’t come, probably I wouldn’t have survived. I wasn’t breathing,” said Stockbridge, who can barely walk and has a quarter-sized gash on her forehead.
Scott Stockbridge, who arrived on the scene in time to watch his screaming daughter carried away on a stretcher, estimates she was thrown 30 to 40 feet. She has a broken nose, damaged teeth, a fractured clavicle, a large cut on her hip and a fractured hip bone.
“She’s in pain,” he said.
It’s unclear if the driver who struck Stockbridge has been cited. Stoneham police would not comment. Calls yesterday to Stoneham Chief Herbert W. Moore’s home were not returned.
The modest Bickmore, who once worked as a police officer in Scarboro, Maine, said he couldn’t have done it alone. One minute after he revived Stockbridge, Stoneham police and fire departments were on scene.
“It was a team effort,” said Bickmore, who has two teenage daughters.
Bickmore said he joked with Stockbridge that he never got his ice cream that night.
“I said, ‘You owe me my ice cream,’ ” he said.
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