For more than three decades of marriage, Kathleen Barr knew she had the best husband. But seeing his big-heartedness returned by community members, in the aftermath of a car accident in which he was struck by an oncoming vehicle as he stopped to help at the scene of an accident on the Garden State Parkway last month, is humbling.

Scott Barr, a retired Ship Bottom police sergeant and Ocean County Regional SWAT Team member, was transported to the Atlantic City Regional Trauma Center Oct.