An Alabama trucker is credited with saving the life of a man who was injured when his car went off the road and into a deep ravine near Pell City, AL.

Steve Cox fell asleep at the wheel of his car in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, according to the Talladega Daily Home.

The next thing he knew, Cox found himself at the bottom of a ravine off of U.S. Highway 231 with a broken neck, broken collarbone and broken ribs and his car wrapped around a tree.

Cox was unable to move and was bleeding from a large gash in his forehead, but he tried to get attention from passing vehicles by honking his horn and screaming. He sat there about 45 minutes until Chres Sorensen, an owner-operator from Pell City, drove by and noticed lights in the woods where there ordinarily weren’t any.

The Daily Home reported that Sorensen, first believing the lights to be a fire, stopped his rig and got out to investigate. Sorensen said the only reason he saw the lights from Cox’s vehicle from the road is because he had a higher vantage point from his truck than those of cars passing by.

At first, he thought the car had been abandoned, but then Sorensen shined his flashlight in the window.

“I said, ‘O Lord,’ ” Sorensen told the Daily Home. “I think it surprised me as much as it surprised him. He didn’t want me to leave. I told him I wasn’t going to leave him.”

Sorensen couldn’t move Cox, so he went back up to the road to call for help when another trucker happened to drive by. That trucker called 911. Sorensen stayed to give his statement to police, and then went back to work.

“This man deserves some type of recognition or an award for heroism because if he had not stopped, I could have bled to death,” Cox said.

Sorensen, however, downplayed his role in the whole thing.

“No, it was just another day at work,” he said.