2024-09-26 12:36:00
The story of Octavi Pujades and José Pujol is one of those stories They will restore a little faith in humanity. We know that the Catalan actor is used to sharing emotional moments with us on social networks, but this time he has gone above and beyond telling how he helped save the life of a motorcyclist in Barcelona just a year ago shin. And how can you not be excited? It is a story that mixes coincidence, bravery and, above all, that spark of humanity that we sometimes seem to have lost in the midst of everyday chaos.
On September 24, 2023, with Barcelona in full swing for the Mercè events, José Pujol’s life took an unexpected dramatic turn. A motorhome, whose driver was confused or decided that traffic laws did not apply that day, He ran a red light in the middle of Diagonal.
The result: a motorcycle violently collides with the vehicle and its pilot, José, ends up on the ground, bleeding from the neck and fighting for his life. Not quite the evening you expect when you decide to go out on a motorbike holiday, right?
Good luck to José, and to everyone who knows him, Octavi Pujades was afraid there. The actor, who is also a doctor although not practicing, was on his way to the gym when he heard the roar of the crash. What do you do in a situation like this? Well, if you’re Octavi Pujades, you hang up the call you were making to your wife and run to help.
Octavi did not come to the scene of the accident alone, but instead met a small group of people who wanted to understand what had happened and, above all, how they could help. And José was lying on the asphalt, with a significant hemorrhage in his neck. The blow against the motorhome was nothing: the side window and the thick rearview mirror were responsible for leaving wounds that, as we learned later,carotid perforation.
This is when the story takes an almost cinematic turn. Pujades, along with a doctor who was also present, He acted immediately to try and stop the bleeding. With the help of a sweatshirt lent to them by a passerby, they managed to staunch the bleeding long enough for the emergency services to arrive. Quick action and, as it turned out later, decisive action.
But the story doesn’t end there, because, after that day, Pujades couldn’t stop wondering what happened to the motorist. “Every time I went through that intersection, I wondered if I was safe,” commented the actor in an Instagram post that struck a chord with his fans. And it’s not surprising. We’ve all experienced that feeling of being part of something important and then being left wondering what happened next.
Three months later, José Pujol gave him the answer he was looking for. Through social networks, the motorcyclist approached him to thank him for saving his life. And that’s where things get even more interesting. It turns out that José, after recovering from the accident, went to the police station to thank the police for their intervention and then he learned that the man who helped save his life was was none other than Octavi Pujades. A chance? Destination? Let’s call it what we want, but the truth is that thanks to that information, he was able to find the actor-doctor-hero and thank him personally.
This September, a year after the fateful accident, José and Octavi celebrated together the “first birthday” of their new life. Because, let’s be honest, it’s not every day you can say that someone literally saved your life. José organized a small party at his home to celebrate his “rebirth” surrounded by friends and a sentiment that only those involved in the tragedy can understand.
Octavi, in his usual way of humility and good manners, shared that moment with his fans, emphasizing how lucky they both were to cross paths at that precise moment. “Life crossed us just a year ago, and blessed is that coincidence”, said the actor in a publication that received thousands of likes and admirers.
José, for his part, could not have been more grateful and he did not fail to highlight how determined Octavi was that day. In his message on social media, he admitted that if it wasn’t for him and his quick intervention, I probably wouldn’t be here to tell the story. Thank you that came, without a doubt, from the bottom of his heart.
This is how the Catalan actor explained the moments he had in recent months:
“Just a year ago I was going to the gym, talking on the phone with Anna, when I heard a very loud bang behind me. I turned around, Anna said, “I’m hanging up on you, this is serious,” and she ran. A motor home pulled up.
“It was Mercè Day and there wasn’t much traffic, but a group of people immediately gathered around to see what happened and try to lend a hand.”
“The motorcyclist was lying on the asphalt, bleeding profusely from his neck. He had hit his head against the side window and the thick rearview mirror of the motorhome. A woman, as well as a doctor, and I compressed the hemorrhage to stop add to the bleeding, to the sweatshirt that “A boy left us. A few seconds later the police and ambulance arrived and effectively took care of the situation and took the injured man away.”
“Every time I passed by there and saw that crossing, I wondered what happened to that boy; if he had lived, how was he. Three months later, I received a message on the networks: it was Jose Pujol, the motorcyclist. After I left the hospital “I went to the police station to thank them for their help, and an agent recognized me and told her that I was someone of those who helped her at that first moment.”
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“I called him immediately. He told me that he punctured his carotid artery in the accident and that it did little for him. We met and got to know each other. The call and the meeting are two of those moments that stays. Yesterday he invited me to his house.
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