Real MVP: Girardi helps crash victim on way home

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Thu Nov 5, 3:57 PM EST
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You win the Super Bowl, you go to Disneyland. You win the Indy 500, you drink the milk. You win the World Series, you ... help a car crash victim?

If you're Joe Girardi you do.

Just hours after guiding the Yankees to their 27th World Series title, Girardi stopped to help a woman who had lost control of her car on the Cross County Parkway and crashed into a wall, according to a report in the Westchester Journal.

"The guy wins the World Series, what does he do? He stops to help," said Westchester County police officer Kathleen Cristiano, who was among the first to arrive at the accident scene. "It was totally surreal."

According to the paper, Girardi had recently passed through a DUI checkpoint on the parkway, where he was congratulated by Cristiano, who was one of the officers working the checkpoint. A short time later, a 911 call came in about an accident just up the road, so the policemen at the checkpoint left to help. By the time they arrived on the scene, Girardi had already helped the woman out of her crashed vehicle.

"He was jumping up and down, trying to flag me down," Cristiano said. "You don't expect him standing by a car accident trying to help."

Girardi had to cross on foot the traffic-filled parkway from where he stopped his car and where the crash had occurred.

Once help arrived, Girardi told them he "had to get going," according to the paper.

Cristiano and the crash victim, Marie Henry, both thanked Girardi and watched as he ran across traffic again to reach his car.

"He could have gotten killed," county Sgt. Thomas McGurn said, adding that responding police units take extra precaution in that area because of the blind curve and speeding cars. "Traffic goes by at 80 mph."

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