TUES 20 August.
Runaway cab jumps curb near Rockefeller Center, severs young British tourist's foot as Dr. Oz rushes to help in midtown

Dr. Oz, who has an office nearby, rushed to the woman's side as a passerby fashions a tourniquet and a vendor puts her foot on ice after the taxi plows into the crowd Tuesday morning at 49th St. and Sixth Ave.

There was horror in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday when a runaway taxi cab jumped a curb and plowed into a pack of pedestrians, pinning a British tourist whose left foot was severed.

Within seconds a union plumber named David Justino teamed up with celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, to rescue the young woman.

“Her left leg was severed off, the other was mangled,” said Justino, who used his belt as a tourniquet to stop the woman from bleeding to death.

Justino called the victim, who police said is 23 and visiting from Britain, is a “strong girl, a brave girl.”

“She was conscious the whole time, the poor thing,” he said. “I wished she would have passed out.”

Oz said “Dave the Plumber” may have her life.

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