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High-ranking trooper saves distressed woman on highway, state police say

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A member of the command staff of the Connecticut State Police kept a distraught woman from running into traffic on I-95 in Old Lyme Wednesday, state police said.

Lt. Col. J. Scott Eckersley was traveling through the area when 911 calls came in about a female running on the highway. He saw the barefoot woman and kept her from dashing in front of cars, they said.

Still pictures from body camera footage show the high-ranking trooper talking to the woman as she leans against a Jersey barrier and maintaining his grip on her hand as she tries to break away and head toward traffic.