An Iowa freeway became the scene of a dramatic rescue when the quick actions of Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis. , and other bystanders helped save an 11-year-old boy with severe injuries.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., was driving through the Hawkeye State to visit family on the anniversary of his daughter’s passing when he witnessed a minivan slamming into a semi-truck in his rearview mirror.

He immediately returned to the scene to help and found a child with severe injuries to his leg and wrist.

“I grabbed some socks out of my suitcase to make constricting bands and then, as people showed up on the scene, I asked if someone had a knife and cut away the seatbelts and was able to fashion two tourniquets, one for his leg and one for his arm, to stop the bleeding,” he recalled on “Fox

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