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>>>Pickerington man, he
has a long road that included
addiction and as our Bryant
Somerville reports, it all
started with a car crash.
>> Reporter: The right people
come to us on the road of life,
exactly when we need them.
Near the intersection of
windmiller drive, and old dolly
drive in pickerington, is where
Justin Reynolds life --
>> I turned in here and totally
destroyed --
>> Reporter: Came to a
crossroads.
>> The berm and cracked my
wheels.
>> Reporter: In 2014, he broke
his leg and started using
opiates and eventually turned to
heroin, that road led him here
in the early morning hours, all
along, until he wasn't.
>> All of a sudden this car
pulls up and gets out with a
flashlight.
>> Reporter: He says the man
identified himself as a former
police officer.
Reynolds confessed to drugging
and drinking.
>> I walk in the garage and I
turn around and look and he was
gone.
>> It was just a maroon SUV.
>> Reporter: Time moved on and
so did he.
Reynolds went to a faith based
program in 2016, where once
again --
>> I was sitting in a dark room,
and we were watching a sermon
and that sermon impacted me so
hard that I felt like the lights
were shining so bright.
>> Reporter: The right person
came to him.
>> It was amazing.
>> Reporter: Clean now, he has a
job, is 10 months married and
getting ready to buy a house,
and getting ready to welcome his
first child.
Still, though, to enjoy these
things, he knew he needed to
give thanks.
>> Because I want to tell him
thank you, like thank you for
being a good person, like
looking out for people.
>> Reporter: To that stranger on
the side of the road.
>> Thank you for being an
inspiration for me, to care for
me when I thought I was alone.
>> Reporter: He posted his story
to Facebook.
In the comments a name was
thrown out, a possibility.
And what do you know?
You want to meet him?
>> Yes.
>> Reporter: Right now?
>> Yes.
>> Reporter: I can take you to
him.
>> Where is H at?
>> Reporter: I talked to him
just before we arrived here.
>> You did?
Where is he at.
>> Reporter: He's here.
The right people come to us no
matter which path we take,
they'll show up again, exactly
when you need it.
>> Hey, I'm the guy that helped
you.
>> Thank you so much.
>> I am so proud of you.
>> Reporter: Dan pinnock retired
from the police department two
years ago.
The former police officer
downplayed his own significance
here, but he's appreciative of
that car ride and helping
Reynolds reclaim my life.
>> What little bit I did do, I'm
just glad he took it to heart.
>> Reporter: The right people
are out there, you just have to
keep an open eye on the road of
life.
>> Keep it going, because
somebody else will pick up what
you're doing.
>> Reporter: In pickerington,
Bryant Somerville, 10 TV news.
>> Reynolds is now a youth group