A Times News motor route carrier says there's no such thing as an ordinary day, especially in winter.

During last Thursday's bad weather, Nancy Lech was driving along Quakake Road near Weatherly during the afternoon, part of a daily 90-mile circuit, when she came on something she won't soon forget."It was a windy, snowy day with lots of ice. I saw a man walking along the road. He had a broken arm and was bloody," she said.Lech pulled over to see what was wrong and the man pleaded, "Can you help me?"His Jeep had slid off the roadway and hit a telephone pole and snow bank. He was trapped for a bit, but his 2 1/2-year-old son was still in the vehicle.The worried motorist pleaded, "Get my baby out!"He wanted Lech to retrieve his child from the rear seat.Lech ran to the car and checked on the baby. The young boy, strapped in a car seat, didn't have visible injuries.Still, Lech figured the best thing to do was contact 911 for advice, so she dialed the Carbon County Communications Center."They told me not to move the baby," Lech said.So instead, Lech guided the man back to his vehicle and stayed with him, speaking to him and trying to calm him until ambulances arrived."He was back with his child, which also calmed the child," said Lech.The man was taken to a Hazleton hospital and treated for a broken arm and other injuries. The baby reportedly had bruises from the impact.The man, by coincidence, is employed as a nurse.The Times News learned from a third party about measures taken by Lech to assure the safety of the two accident victims."The woman who called us is a firefighter from a nearby town and had heard everything that happened on her scanner," said Colleen Rudelitsch, Times News motor route supervisor."She is certainly aware of what is involved in helping with an accident and wanted us to know how important it was for Nancy to have stayed with the accident victim and do everything the dispatcher said."Rudelitsch lauded Lech on the effectiveness of her response, keeping everybody calm and knowing to not move the baby.It could have caused more harm than good depending on the child's injury, said dispatchers."Nancy didn't leave the scene until the paramedics arrived," said Rudelitsch.Lech, 56, is the former Nancy Seliga, a native of Crystal Ridge, near Hazleton. She's been delivering the Times News for nearly six years.She is familiar with newspaper routes because her father was a newspaper carrier for 40 years.Her route takes her to Nesquehoning, Weatherly, Buck Mountain, Ginthers, Quakake and South Lehigh Gorge, among other locations.Being a resident of nearby Hazleton, Lech is familiar with the treacherous stretch of rural road running between Route 309 and 93, not far from St. Matthew's Union Church.Open fields on both sides of the road allow the wind to whip across the landscape, causing drifting and icy conditions.The road was covered in ice and snow, said Lech. Conditions were particularly dangerous that day."There were large ruts and I think the wind just blew the guy's car off the road."Lech prefers to avoid the spotlight and is downplaying her role."I did what anybody else would've done," she said.After offering aid, Lech continued on her route but her deliveries were delayed a bit."I was running late by 15 or 20 minutes," she said, hoping that Times News readers would understand why the newspaper arrived later than usual.It can happen any time, especially when weather is treacherous, Lech said.Lech made sure she's ready for the next storm.On Wednesday, she purchased a four-wheel drive vehicle."We just never know what to expect on the road," she said.