Toll Collectors Help Save Man's Life

Two Massachusetts Turnpike toll collectors are being credited with helping save the life of a man who was unresponsive in a car at a toll plaza.

Peter Kusi tells The MetroWest Daily News he had just finished his shift at the Exit 11A plaza where the Pike intersects with Interstate 495 on the Hopkinton-Westborough line last Thursday when he heard someone yell "'Help! Help! Help!' My friend is not breathing."

While a colleague called 911, the 41-year-old Kusi pulled the unresponsive 21-year-old man from the car and began CPR. When Kusi tired, fellow toll collector Ricardo Arriago took over.

Kusi says the man opened his eyes and had a pulse when he left in the ambulance.

James Massenburg, a senior toll collector, says Kusi and Arriago saved a life.