When my grandson told me about this event, my grandmother's heart was torn between pride in his unselfish spirit and terror for his safety. But I definitely thought it should be recorded for his children and grandchildren to read some day.
Journaling:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Heroic good Samaritans risked their own safety to rescue a driver from a fiery crash off I-25 over the weekend.
Arturo Jauregui was driving southbound on the interstate late Saturday afternoon when he saw a driver in trouble near the Interquest exit (153). He saw a truck start to spin out and do circles, and then roll down the embankment. Other people had already pulled over.When he got down to see if everyone was OK, he saw that the passenger got out but the driver was still in the car.
Amanda Smith said this was the moment she and her husband came upon the crash.“As we were rounding around, I looked over and saw a car flipped over, so I had asked my husband to pull over because there was no emergency vehicles there. I saw about five people hanging onto the car trying to pull this man out."
Jauregui said the group realized the driver’s seat belt was locked in place.“For a second I didn’t feel like I was helping out at all, but the second that they told me the seat belt was stuck, that we need to cut it off, I ran up to my car, grabbed a razor blade and was able to cut it off," Jauregui said. When we were pulling him out, we felt like we were hurting him more, but they told me that if we just leave him there, it could get worse.”
During the rescue, Smith noticed the car was starting to smoke.“They had all climbed on top of the car because it was kind of on its side, and they were reaching through the window trying to pull him out of the window.”
The good Samaritans got the driver out just in time.
Seconds after they pulled him out,
the car exploded into flames.The driver was
conscious and is expected to recover.
Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the
flames, which had spread to the surrounding grass.
Smith said she was in awe of the heroism
she saw that day --
people who could have easily driven
past the crash, but instead risked
their own lives
to save a man they didn’t know.
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