PUBLISHED: 11:19 EST, 29 November 2012 | UPDATED: 11:27 EST, 29 November 2012 A quick-thinking teacher saved her sister from bleeding to death by using a passing pedestrian’s belt as a tourniquet after the pair were hit by an out-of-control car. Teaching assistant Laura Reddy, 23, suffered a shattered right leg when she was hit by a car while walking home from work in South Molton, Devon, with her sister Nadine Marchant. Ms Reddy was left bleeding heavily on the pavement after the incident - but Ms Marchant, 36, grabbed a passer-by’s belt and wrapped it tightly around her sister's upper leg to the stem the flow.
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Laura Reddy, 23, suffered extensive blood loss after being hit by a car while walking home from work in Devon
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Her sister Nadine Marchant, 36 - who was with her at the time- used a passing pedestrian's belt to stem the bleeding until help arrived
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Doctors said Ms Reddy would have bled to death without her sister's intervention
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