A grieving family is on the search for the trucker that helped their daughter after she crashed her truck into a tree.
The fatal crash happened on Highway 70 outside of Soper, Oklahoma around 5am on Sunday morning.
According to victim’s family, Dorothy Marko, 25, was driving east on Highway 70 when she went off the road and crashed her truck into a tree. Multiple vehicles apparently stopped to take pictures of the fiery wreckage, but only one trucker pulled over to help.
Marko’s clothes were apparently burned off in the fire, but she managed to crawl out the back of the truck and escape with the help of the truck driver. “At least he comforted her when we couldn’t,” said Brenda Marko, mother of the victim.
The truck driver was “really upset when [she] was lying here unconscious” said sister Linda. “He was up by the gravel kicking the dirt saying ‘what’s taking them so long, what’s taking them so long to get here?’”
“[He was] screaming ‘she’s just a baby,’” Brenda said. “With all my heart I want to thank him.”
Marko was being airlifted to a Plano hospital when they had to make an emergency stop in McKinney in an attempt to save her. It was there that Marko succumbed to her injuries.
Marko leaves behind two young children, 5 and 8 years old.
The family continues to look for the “angel” trucker who stepped up to help their daughter when no one else would.