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A woman has shared some potentially lifesaving advice that stopped her from being involved in a car crash.
Helen Villiers, known as @liberationhelen on TikTok, heard the advice - which she's hailed as 'the best ever' - from another TikToker and now wants to share it even further.
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Helen took to the video sharing platform earlier today, Monday 11 September, and credited TikTok for 'saving [her] life'.
Speaking to the camera while sat in her car, she told her followers: "TikTok just saved my life.
"I'm sort of in shock. A few months ago I saw a TikTok of a woman who is a mortician or pathologist who said these are the things she wouldn't do because of what her job is.
"And one of them was, at a T-junction, when the light turns green, she would always pause before moving just in case someone coming the other way hasn't seen it as she'd seen so many people die from T-bone accidents."
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Helen went on to say that the smart piece of advice had 'stuck in [her] brain' - and it's since paid off.
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Recalling an incident that just happened to her, she said: "So I'm at the T bit, and the light turned green and I was about to whizz off - and I've got quite a fast car - but I didn't and I was like, nope, you should do what [the TikToker] said.
"This all happened within a split second [...] and as I thought 'wait a minute', this car came down this hill and over the T-junction, through a red light at maybe 50mph.
"It's a 30mph speed limit," she added.
Because Helen took the advice on board and waited a second at the light, she avoided a collision with the speeding vehicle.
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"I don't know where I'd be right now [if I hadn't waited], but I don't think I'd be sitting on my drive about to go in a record a podcast," she mused.
Now Helen has urged others to also pause at green lights when driving and 'take a breath', branding it as 'the best bit of advice ever'.
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As to who the original TikToker was that she got the piece of advice from, with the help of her followers, Helen's worked out that it was a creator that goes by the name Lauren the Mortician.
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Thanking Lauren in the comments section, Helen wrote: "Thank you a thousand times. I'm not in hospital (or worse) because of you! Thank you."
People have since been quick to praise Lauren for 'making such an impact'.
One person said: "I do this since watching your video and I tell others. You are making such an impact, more than you realise!"
"@Lauren the Mortician out here saving lives," added another, as a third labelled Lauren as 'the actual definition of an angel'.
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It just goes to show that TikTok is more than funny ring doorbell videos and and entertaining cat clips.