A pair of Good Samaritans who leapt to the rescue after an Angus car crash have shrugged off their hero tag.
Plumbers Gordon Clark and Kyle Hayter freed Brechin mother Katie Dunn and her 12-week-old daughter Gabrielle from her vehicle after it went off the road near Forfar last week.
Credit controller Katie, 32, was left in shock after the crash before Gordon and Kyle leapt to her rescue and got the mother and baby out of harm’s way at the Fledymye crash scene.
They left after police arrived and Katie contacted The Courier to publicly thank the mystery knights of the road following the terrifying incident.
Mr Clark, 29, from Kirkinch and Mr Hayter, 21, from Newtyle, got in touch after reading our front page article but played down their heroics.
Mr Clark said: “We just did what anyone else would have done.
“We were coming home and the road was quite busy when we saw the nose of the jeep in the grass.
“It looked like the accident had just happened. We drove past but instinct took over and we turned 50 yards down the road and came back to check everything was OK.”
Other drivers had already passed by, oblivious to Katie and Gabrielle’s plight after their vehicle left the road and plunged down an embankment in heavy rain at a series of bends.
Mr Clark added: “She was frozen in the seat. She was completely in shock and the baby was crying in the back seat.
“We made sure there were no injuries and took the phone from her and called the police.”
The vehicle was still in a precarious position so Gordon and Kyle who both work for Peter M Drummond Ltd of Meigle got Katie and Gabrielle out of the car.
An off-duty police officer then arrived on the scene ahead of the emergency services and told the pair he would take over.
The rescuers got back in their white van and headed home.
They both wondered if the woman they had helped was all right and got their answer when they picked up The Courier.
Kyle said they were delighted to see mother and baby were unscathed and the plumbers have since sent a message to Katie to thank her for her kind words.
“It felt pretty good to see just how gratefulshe was for what we had done,” he said.
“It’s just not in our nature to drive past if we think somebody is in trouble. We thought somebody was in the car and might need our help, so we stopped.
“We’d actually been talking about what happened so it was great to read that there had been a happy ending.”