Police Officer Kept Brick Teen From Bleeding To Death: Report

A Brick Township teen is alive thanks in large part to the quick actions of a North Jersey police officer, who put a tourniquet around his leg to keep the teen from bleeding to death after an accident Sunday, according to a report.

According to The Record’s website, NorthJersey.com, Jason Criscuolo, 18, of Brick, a 2015 graduate of St. Rose High School, was hit by a pickup truck shortly before 8 p.m. as he tried to cross Route 17, police said.

Mahwah Police Matt Lombardo wrapped the tourniquet — a medical device that is issued to all township police officers — around the student’s left leg as he lay in the highway’s southbound lanes on Sunday night until a medical helicopter arrived, Chief James Batelli of the Mahwah police told The Record.

Criscuolo, who was a star pitcher for the St. Rose baseball team, was flown by helicopter to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, where doctors amputated his leg below the knee, Batelli said, according to the report.

Batelli told the paper an emergency room doctor told detectives that it was Lombardo’s action of using the tourniquet that had saved the teen’s life.

“It’s why we do the job,” Lombardo, 27, who lives in Ringwood, told The Record.

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