A Vancouver Island trucker is being credited with helping to save a woman’s life after he spotted her lying on the side of the road on Tuesday night.

Gord Price was driving along the Island Highway from Chemainus to Nanaimo when he saw a crumpled pile on the side of the road just after 12:30 a.m.

In the dark, the trucker thought it might have been an old mattress or some blankets.

Gordon Price returned to the area where he found Galloway on