Hero workers save man from fireball
Published: September 4, 2007
UK — A driver was saved from certain death by fire by heroic passers-by who saw the car crash.
The car had swerved from the road and had hit a lamppost with such force that it was left sticking out of the roof of a house.
Rolls-Royce workers Rob Bashford, 34, from Lancing, and Paul Crane, 42, from Worthing, were overtaken by the car seconds before the crash.
Rob Bashford:
“It literally took off. It landed on its side with the passenger side on the ground. It hit the front of the house and bounced back and ended up on its wheels.
He couldn’t undo the seatbelt. He was saying: ‘I can’t get out, I can’t get out.’”
With the engine bursting into flames the 23 year old driver was struggling to get out, trapped by his seat belt.
Another car, carrying three Tarmac Safetydeck workers - Nick Hendrick, 44, and son Michael, 20, from Rustington, and Lee Swain, 39, from Littlehampton - pulled up to help.
Nick Hendrick:
“He was wrapped up inside his seatbelt. He was very shocked and dazed. There were visible flames under the bonnet.
Luckily the passenger side had taken the brunt of the crash.”
Together the men were able to access the car, untangle the seatbelt and drag the young man out of the car to safety.
With fire engulfing the car the tyres blew out. The heat of the fire was so intense that it damaged the front of a nearby house.
The 23 year old young man was treated for minor injuries only.
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