Man donates blood for record 350th time
Tue Jul 26,10:04 AM ET
An elderly South African broke his own Guinness world record Tuesday when he donated blood for the 350th time, inspired by the enduring memory of a terrible accident he witnessed as a child.
The South African National Blood Service said in a statement that 79-year-old Maurice Creswick had cracked his own record for the fourteenth time and that he donated 480 ml of his blood every 56 days.
"When I was 11-years-old I witnessed a horrific accident when a tram smashed into a motor vehicle," Creswick was quoted as saying.
"Five passengers were critically injured. I decided then to never just stand by and do nothing if there was a way to help others in a time of need," he said.
South Africa has some of the world's most dangerous roads and sky-high rates of violent crime.
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