North Shore police were reunited with the man, who is now looking forward to his 90th birthday after they helped bring him back from the brink on Monday after a scary eight minutes on the side of the motorway. Photo / Facebook
An elderly man who suffered a heart attack while he and his wife were driving on the motorway has been brought back from the brink of death by quick-thinking police officers.
On Monday, Detective Dan McDermott and Constable Natalie Hicks from Auckland's Harbour Bridge Police base were on their way
to a job when they saw a vehicle had pulled over on the motorway just north of the bridge.
An 89-year-old man who was travelling with his wife had just suffered a cardiac arrest and was unresponsive, police said in a statement. Two members of the public also stopped to help.
The officers quickly called for assistance and began CPR, with the help of an off-duty nurse.
More police quickly arrived, bringing a defibrillator from the police base. By the time it was used on the man he had been unresponsive for eight minutes.
