EVERYONE KNOWS JOE GIRARDI is a good manager. Turns out he's a good Samaritan, too.

Hours after his Yankees won the World Series with a Game 6 victory over the Phillies on Wednesday night, Girardi stopped to help a car crash victim on the Cross County Parkway in Eastchester, N.Y.

Yesterday, Girardi told Mike Francesa of WFAN-AM radio that he pulled over to help the woman, who had crashed into a wall at about 2:25 a.m. yesterday.

The woman, 27-year-old Marie Henry, of Stratford, Conn., only suffered cuts, but Girardi didn't know that when he stopped. He said he asked his wife to call 911 and then walked to the vehicle.

"As bad as the car looked, I was really concerned," he told WFAN. "When I got there, she was on the phone, talking to police, and she only had a little cut. She couldn't open her door. And I was like, 'You need to get out of this car because if someone comes around the bend, they're going to hit the back of your car.' And I just kept talking to her."

Police soon arrived and Girardi got back in his car and drove home.

"The guy wins the World Series, what does he do? He stops to help," Westchester County Police Officer Kathleen Cristiano told the Journal News. of Westchester-Rockland counties. "It was totally surreal."

About 15 minutes earlier, Cristiano, who said she is a big Yankees fans, had waved Girardi through a sobriety checkpoint.

Cristiano then responded to the accident call and, surprisingly, saw the manager again.

"He was jumping up and down, trying to flag me down," she said. "You don't expect him standing by a car accident, trying to help."

At that point, Henry had no idea she was being helped by a World Series-winning manager.

"She didn't find out from me," Girardi told WFAN.

"[She] didn't know it was him until after I told her," Cristiano said.

- Tom Mahon

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