Hero saves driver
Published: April 23, 2007
A good Samaritan who heard an accident and ran to it this weekend ended up saving a life.
James Greensmith, 26, of Tuska Avenue, said he pulled a woman out of a crashed Lexus just before it burst into flames on Gershal Avenue early Sunday morning.
“I was in my house, and I heard a bang,” he said.
When Greensmith ran from his nearby home to the gray Lexus, he said its front left corner had impacted the tree and the front end was starting to burn.
Greensmith said that he helped a woman who was trying to climb out of the rear driver’s-side seat of the car, where she ended up after the accident.
The woman, whose name he didn’t know, told him she swerved her car to avoid a deer and, in doing so, hit a tree.
“She told me she was driving,” he noted. “She said the next thing you know, she was in the back seat.”
Greensmith said that as he walked the woman to safety, the car went up.
“Within a couple minutes, the car was completely engulfed,” he added. “The car completely burned to the ground.”
When Rosenhayn Volunteer Fire Co. showed up at around 1 a.m., the car was fully engulfed, according to Chief Mark Cifalogio.
He said Rosenhayn’s ambulance transported the woman to South Jersey Healthcare-Regional Medical Center, but he did not identify the woman.
Greensmith said he hopes to find out how she’s doing now.
So what prompted him to do a good deed?
“I couldn’t see someone getting hurt if I could stop it,” he said.
Greensmith also kept the woman away from harm because though she was talking, she was incoherent from the crash.
“She kept wanting to go back to the car,” he added.
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