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Yanks' Girardi wins World Series, then helps motorist


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New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi poses for photos in the Loge level of Yankee Stadium after a press conference introducing him as the baseball team's new manager Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007 in New York.  (Julie Jacobson, AP Photo)
New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi poses for photos in the Loge level of Yankee Stadium. (Julie Jacobson, AP Photo)
EASTCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Yankees Manager Joe Girardi capped off a victorious evening by helping a car crash victim.

Girardi pulled over to help after a woman lost control of her car on the Cross County Parkway and crashed into a wall around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday. That was just hours after Girardi's team claimed World Series victory.

The woman was able to walk away from the accident and declined to be taken to the hospital.

Girardi flagged down police responding to a 911 call. Just 15 minutes earlier Officer Kathleen Cristiano had waved him through a driving while intoxicated checkpoint and congratulated him.

Cristiano says that seeing Girardi at the accident scene later "was totally surreal." She said: "The guy wins the World Series, what does he do? He stops to help."
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