I saved a stranger’s life

She was lying on her back, her hair flowing in the reeds, just like OpheliaI dread to think what would have happened had I not driven past her that afternoon. It was the winter of 2013, and I was on my way home from my local train station in North Devon. Her head was lolling out of the car window, her hair cascading towards the ground. I thought she was dead. I braked and reached for my mobile to call an ambulance. When I looked again, she was sitting up and staring at me. “