These images show how a heroic German Shepherd led cops to its owner’s crashed car, helping them to save two people’s lives.

The incident took place on Veteran’s Memorial Bridge, which is located on Interstate 89, on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont near the city of Lebanon, on 3rd January.

The New Hampshire State Police said in a statement obtained by Newsflash that one of its troopers, who it named only as Trooper Sandberg, responded to a report that there was a dog on the loose on the bridge.

The trooper, along with other officers from the Lebanon Police Department, could not get close to the dog, with the cops saying that the dog continued to run northbound on Interstate when they tried to apprehend it, eventually crossing into Vermont.

They followed the dog, and a short while later, they noticed that there was a damaged section of guardrail near the junction between Interstate 89 and Interstate 91.

This is when they noticed that there was a badly damaged pickup truck that had rolled over, with the police realising as they investigated further that “both occupants of the pickup truck had been ejected from the vehicle and were hypothermic and seriously injured”.

The police quickly called for medical backup and they then found out that the dog, named Tinsley, actually belonged to one of the injured people in the pickup truck.

The police said that it quickly became apparent to Trooper Sandberg and to the Lebanon police officers that Tinsley, a female, had led them to the scene of the crash and to her injured owner.

The occupants of the vehicle were taken to hospital. There have been no further updates on their condition.

Tinsley did not appear to have been injured in the crash. It is currently unclear what caused the pickup truck to crash.