Juanita Bland is 75 years old, disabled and lives in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. She was in her specially equipped van when the electric side door on the van became stuck open. She couldn’t get out of the van so she waved down a passing good samaritan.

The man helped her close the door and then asked for a ride. He seemed nice so she agreed and he rode with her for a few blocks before alighting and getting into a white sedan parked on the street. The man then drove off.

What Juanita didn’t know was the good samaritan she had given a lift to had just robbed a local bank branch.

“When I think back now of what could have happened, I feel blessed that I’m OK,” Bland said.

Juanita found out she was driving the getaway van when a friend called her. She had heard on the police scanner that the robber had gotten into Juanita’s van and worried that Juanita had been abducted.