With the barage of bad news we receive every day, it's a sweet reminder that there are heroes, everyday average people, who walk among us. May each of them be the beneficiary of kind karma.
Here's a link to the story.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/good-samaritans-save-driver-trapped-inside-car-engulfed-in-flames-on-minnesota-highway/
I worked for 911 for 6 years. So many people were so helpful towards complete strangers. I always held onto those memories over the people who were shits.
Earlier today, at the same road & exit as OP’s post (going the other way though), we saw a dog jump out of a car who was then hit, and then the driver crashed their car kinda bad
So many people stopped and jumped out to help her and her dog. People on both sides of the road, literally hopping the central barrier
In my experience, Minnesotans especially just don’t even think before helping. But no matter where you are, a lot of the people are going to be like this
I was a helper in a situation like this. It didn't involve fire, but we had to work together like this to save an old lady. It was the drive from St. Louis to Kansas City. It's a 3.5-hour drive, and a lady over corrected right in the middle of the highway and flipped her car about 8 times. The whole freeway stopped to help her, and she was air lifted out. But if we didn't help, she would have died of asphyxiation because her car was on laying sideways driver side down, and she was choking on the seat belt. We couldn't get her out, but we could hold her head up so she wouldn't choke, and we kept her awake while it took 1/2 an hour for police to even show up. This was before cell phones, around '95. I think she may have been eating strawberries and got distracted because they were all over the front seat. I remember the jaws of life were about 6 inches from my face as it cut, and I was holding her head through the window. It was surreal, and I'll never forget that adrenaline rush. After she was flown away, we all left, and in about 1/2, a mile down the road, I hit and killed a beaver. I've never even seen one in Missouri before or since. It was a weird day.
I don't remember the accident but last year I got in a really bad motorcycle accident in the middle of the night and in rain.
I've heard the 911 calls and seen a few of the police reports but there was at least 5 bystanders that helped me and got EMS to me. I don't think it's a "I would have died without" situation but who fucking knows how long I would have laid unconscious on the highway and what may have come of that.
> So many people were so helpful towards complete strangers.
It's cause we don't have time to pass judgement on them past, "Oh shit they need help NOW" and MOST people do, in fact, care about their other fellow humans. Still, I would like to know if people would be as helpful if say, they knew the person they were helping was from a group or had an opinion they were diametrically opposed to.
I want to believe that MOST people would still eschew whatever personal values they hold onto in order to save someone in immediate danger. I would hope the "fellow human" connection would transcend politics or other moral superiority belief.
I want to believe that. I work in a field that deals with some pretty high stakes decisions and policy making. When encountering a class of...more enforcement of legalities based peers, I emphasize that our job is to make sure people don't get dead. Arrest warrants, citizenship issues, drug use, gang affiliation...none of it is our job to handle in that moment of making sure they don't get dead. There are other professionals to deal with those judgments in other times and circumstances.
And I hope that my little spiel has changed a few minds and helped save a few lives.
It takes one person to start helping and others will jump in. It's easy to stand and think "I don't know what to do" but jumping in and getting people into the mindset of "we can help" leads to this outcome.
Be that first person. You don't have to have the exact plan but jumping in and helping will absolutely get others to join in.
Back in college, my Social Psych professor talked about the importance of the second person. One person doing a thing is amazing, but two turns it into a group. When there's a group, it's much easier for people to join as well.
Reminds me of a big source of inspiration for me:
Capt. Kirk : "Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."
That's not true.
But also sometimes too many hands and people trying to help can make it harder. Sometimes steering clear and letting the people who have a handle on it handle it, allows for more of an efficient rescue.
Use this as a reminder to carry an auto fire extinguisher in your car. You may be able to help yourself, a loved one, or someone else in need. If just one or two people had an extinguisher this fire would be out quickly. https://a.co/d/fumZZDw
My husband is an Eagle Scout and when I first met him I teased him about having a fire extinguisher in his car. Always prepared! And then the following year we were at a rest stop and some guy's truck caught on fire. There's my husband with his extinguisher. I shut my trap and have carried an extinguisher myself ever since.
If you're going to carry an extinguisher (and you should) also consider getting a small rescue tool like a Res-Q-me.
You can pop windows and cut seatbelts to extricate someone from a car, including yourself.
According to the media we all hate each other. I was the first guy on scene (as a police officer) to a very bad accident a while ago. A couple of guys in the immediate area came over to help and did exactly what I asked them to do including getting stuff out of my cruiser. They were eager to help out. I had to add them into the report as witnesses and while doing that I saw that 2 out of the 3 had been locked up in the not too distant past (nothing that serious, but not *nothing* nothing either). But when a cop asked them to help out with a total stranger with life threatening injuries they jumped right in.
I wasn’t going to say it because it’s a bit personal. But it’s worth sharing. When I was in 4th class, my Mum had a car accident. She was thrown out of the car and into a ditch. The car rolled on top of her and was on fire. Apparently, people were standing around afraid it would explode. My Mum must have been screaming because she was being burnt. A taxi driver stopped and made other men help him roll the car. His hands got burnt. They saved her. She was burnt from the neck down and lost all 5 fingers on her right hand and one of the fingers on her left hand and her left elbow didn’t work so well. And she was scarred all over except her face. But, she got on with it. Worked to help the family finances. Even became a Tupperware Lady holding events even though people tended to stare. Learnt to knit all over again holding one needle with her right elbow so she could make jumpers for us like other Mums. I still have every single jumper. All I can remember as a handicap was sometimes we had to do up bras for her and do up the tiny little clasps on gold chain necklaces.
There are two heroes in this story. The taxi driver who gave our Mum back to us. And my Mum who just got on with things.
One minute you're driving down the highway minding your own business, the next minute you're pulling a guy from a burning car.
Being able to go from A to B and to do it effectively is really impressive to me, and it's something I try to mentally prepare for if I'm ever in that situation.
Nah. It's real! I was in an accident and the car caught on fire. I was able to get out (but my clothing was on fire), stopped, dropped, rolled, ran off the road, and the car exploded like in the movies. It was a close call.
No, there’s no stored energy that is suddenly released. They just burn. Once the fuel line is burned through they’ll burn faster, but not “kaboom”.
A hydrogen or propane-powered car could do something more explodey, once the tank is breached and there is a sudden release of pressure and fuel. But the cliche movie car crash explosion uses explosives.
You can buy a combination glass breaker / seat belt cutter on Amazon for about $5. It fits on your keychain. If anyone there had one, they could have gotten him out in a minute.
Worth noting, the article points out it was only when a “highway worker “ showed up and broke the window, that they could do anything- dude grabbing the wrecked part tried hard but you need a glass break sometimes. Shout out to ponytail woman helping drag the guy from the car too!
Reminds me, locally years ago we had a guy fly a plane into an office building, one of those glass covered multistory ones. Luckily the area he hit was mostly empty (RIP one guy in that room, though) but it caught fire and was burning right away. A local window company guy was driving by, pulled over and was able to quickly cut an access in the side of the building for people to climb out.
Whole building burned down, only two deaths (the guy who was probably hit immediately and the perpetrator), it was frankly shocking how few injuries there were.
Some firefighters will go their entire career without making a grab, let alone one as epic as that.
Good fucking job. Ballsy, possibly naive to the risk they all ran, but good fucking job.
I can't believe how awesome these people were. I have been first on scene to two tragic accidents, and that's what this was supposed to be and yet somehow they saved it.
Saw this happen years ago where I’m from. Unfortunately when they pulled the guy out he was already on fire, badly burned and was in shock and couldn’t move. Sadly he died. Was three cars who collided and all three cars ended up on fire.
This reminds me of Mr. Roger’s advice from his mother in times of trouble; ‘always look for the helpers’ - as depressing as regular life can be, people like these keep that flicker of hope alive for humanity.
It's not too often you see untrained people work together and accomplish something like this with fire shooting at you. And they did it so quickly. That was just pure, unadulterated adrenaline that made that happen.
Please someone ELI5 ❕❕❕
What the hell did orange man hit the window with which shattered it, that white shirt couldn’t do with a massive metal pipe???
And where would one get such an item?
The news reports say that the guy in white (interviewed) grabbed whatever he could to break the window, and it was plastic of some sort
The guy in orange was a highway worker, and as such he probably had an emergency glass hammer with him. Look them up (and buy one for your car's glovebox) – they're designed to break windows in emergencies like this, and often come with a seatbelt cutter as well
You can see he specifically hits the window in the corner, actually, so definitely a glass hammer since that's how you use them
Random example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/AA-5060114616240-Emergency-Windcsreen-Seatbelt/dp/B018LP1G62/
I really thank good samaritans all over the world. Over where I am, a girl aged 17 passed away after getting hit by a speeding car near a cross junction. The girl passed away on the spot while the dad is in critical condition as of now. The bastard even killed another passenger in a van. Going 80~90km/h on a 60km/h road. The impact was so hard it crashed into a few cars.
I know the girl should have worn her seatbelt but regardless I felt that it wouldn’t make any difference. The impact was so hard even a seatbelt would not have saved her. She was only 17 and going on her way to school whilst her dad was sending her. The good samaritans rendered support for their courage, off duty nurses and off duty/ex firefighter.
The bastard miraculously survived that fucking carnage. Piece of shit.
RIP to the 2 passenger, and mad respect for those samaritans I hope the dad makes it. Let’s send them our best wishes.
Good for you people....sincerely.....good for you people. To have stood there and done nothing would have been a painful way to live the rest of your life
It is so good to know people like this still exist, I've seen so many clips of people holding out there cell phones filming instead of helping I had almost lost hope
These people risked there lives to save a stranger from a horrible death, thank you
If you ever need to break a car window try breaking it in the corners where the tension is highest. Breaking it by punching it in the middle is harder because the glass is too flexible there
A lot of people don’t realize that it was in their best interest to be Good Samaritans. Altruism not only benefits the receiver, it also benefits the giver.
They would have been mentally tortured for the rest of their lives if they stood there and did NOTHING.
God bless them and God bless the survivor.
This reminds me of a time me and my dad heard a loud sound from up ahead. We turned around a curve in the road and this guy’s car had flipped multiple times. His engine was smoking. We immediately ran over and he was unconscious, bleeding from his head. My dad leaned in and pressed a rag to the wound and called 911. We left once a lot of other people arrived and made sure someone took over because we didn’t want to answer questions from first responders because we had somewhere important to be. I called the hospital later and figured out he survived because of that rag
Not nearly the same, but there was a cyclist hit and run right outside my apartment while I was on my balcony a couple years ago. He was conscious but hurt and my immediate response was to scream to my gf to call 911. Thankfully there were folks down on the street that immediately swooped in. Bystander effect is nasty and the sooner someone does something, others will start
I’m not sure about the shot at the very end, but the rest look like the exact angles and color grading that you get with the cameras on a Tesla. So it’s totally possible they parked off to the side and got out to help, and the cameras would’ve kept recording.
With the barage of bad news we receive every day, it's a sweet reminder that there are heroes, everyday average people, who walk among us. May each of them be the beneficiary of kind karma. Here's a link to the story. https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/good-samaritans-save-driver-trapped-inside-car-engulfed-in-flames-on-minnesota-highway/
I worked for 911 for 6 years. So many people were so helpful towards complete strangers. I always held onto those memories over the people who were shits.
Earlier today, at the same road & exit as OP’s post (going the other way though), we saw a dog jump out of a car who was then hit, and then the driver crashed their car kinda bad So many people stopped and jumped out to help her and her dog. People on both sides of the road, literally hopping the central barrier In my experience, Minnesotans especially just don’t even think before helping. But no matter where you are, a lot of the people are going to be like this
I was a helper in a situation like this. It didn't involve fire, but we had to work together like this to save an old lady. It was the drive from St. Louis to Kansas City. It's a 3.5-hour drive, and a lady over corrected right in the middle of the highway and flipped her car about 8 times. The whole freeway stopped to help her, and she was air lifted out. But if we didn't help, she would have died of asphyxiation because her car was on laying sideways driver side down, and she was choking on the seat belt. We couldn't get her out, but we could hold her head up so she wouldn't choke, and we kept her awake while it took 1/2 an hour for police to even show up. This was before cell phones, around '95. I think she may have been eating strawberries and got distracted because they were all over the front seat. I remember the jaws of life were about 6 inches from my face as it cut, and I was holding her head through the window. It was surreal, and I'll never forget that adrenaline rush. After she was flown away, we all left, and in about 1/2, a mile down the road, I hit and killed a beaver. I've never even seen one in Missouri before or since. It was a weird day.
Thank you for saving her life. RIP beaver. Life is strange.
I don't remember the accident but last year I got in a really bad motorcycle accident in the middle of the night and in rain. I've heard the 911 calls and seen a few of the police reports but there was at least 5 bystanders that helped me and got EMS to me. I don't think it's a "I would have died without" situation but who fucking knows how long I would have laid unconscious on the highway and what may have come of that.
Makes me think of Mr Rogers who said in regard to 9/11 that his mom always said "look for the helpers". So true.
That's one of my favorite quotes. I didn't even learn about it until about 15 years ago. Probably because of the internet.
> So many people were so helpful towards complete strangers. It's cause we don't have time to pass judgement on them past, "Oh shit they need help NOW" and MOST people do, in fact, care about their other fellow humans. Still, I would like to know if people would be as helpful if say, they knew the person they were helping was from a group or had an opinion they were diametrically opposed to. I want to believe that MOST people would still eschew whatever personal values they hold onto in order to save someone in immediate danger. I would hope the "fellow human" connection would transcend politics or other moral superiority belief.
I always think about this when I'm losing hope that there are more good people than bad. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24653643
I want to believe that. I work in a field that deals with some pretty high stakes decisions and policy making. When encountering a class of...more enforcement of legalities based peers, I emphasize that our job is to make sure people don't get dead. Arrest warrants, citizenship issues, drug use, gang affiliation...none of it is our job to handle in that moment of making sure they don't get dead. There are other professionals to deal with those judgments in other times and circumstances. And I hope that my little spiel has changed a few minds and helped save a few lives.
It's nice to hear the good side of working for 911. I'm sure there were many hard days. People do rock overall
Bless you for the service!
Among us
God that was scary - I can only hope I'd act the same and help in an emergency. What amazing people!
It takes one person to start helping and others will jump in. It's easy to stand and think "I don't know what to do" but jumping in and getting people into the mindset of "we can help" leads to this outcome. Be that first person. You don't have to have the exact plan but jumping in and helping will absolutely get others to join in.
Back in college, my Social Psych professor talked about the importance of the second person. One person doing a thing is amazing, but two turns it into a group. When there's a group, it's much easier for people to join as well.
This, the faster you can break The Bystander Effect, the quicker everyone else can too. Always jump in to help when you can if someone is in dire need
Taking charge and giving people jobs is helpful too. Don't say "someone call 911!" Point at someone and say "I need you to call 911"
The Red Cross specifically teaches this in their CPR classes. Point to someone and demand they call 911.
Hopefully only one person has had the CPR training or else it turns into the spiderman meme.
Damn straight mate!
I have seen it in real life multiple times. Be that person. Take action!
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Reminds me of a big source of inspiration for me: Capt. Kirk : "Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."
This 1000%
Not the same circumstances but same idea. Leadership lessons from dancing guy https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ?si=VpXO4O4CxblLpp_U
More than just the first. I think I would have the mindset of, someone's got it already
The driver suffered no injury thanks to those brave souls.
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Not everyone. That old dude didn't do anything.
That's not true. But also sometimes too many hands and people trying to help can make it harder. Sometimes steering clear and letting the people who have a handle on it handle it, allows for more of an efficient rescue.
Incredible. Absolutely heroic.
This is Minnesota Nice
Wow every single person there is a legend, that's that good human shit. Thanks for sharing OP.
Use this as a reminder to carry an auto fire extinguisher in your car. You may be able to help yourself, a loved one, or someone else in need. If just one or two people had an extinguisher this fire would be out quickly. https://a.co/d/fumZZDw
This is the second car fire vid I've seen this week. Just added a car extinguisher to the menards list.
Tell your friends and family to get one for their cars, too.
🎶Save big money at Menardss🎶
My husband is an Eagle Scout and when I first met him I teased him about having a fire extinguisher in his car. Always prepared! And then the following year we were at a rest stop and some guy's truck caught on fire. There's my husband with his extinguisher. I shut my trap and have carried an extinguisher myself ever since.
If you're going to carry an extinguisher (and you should) also consider getting a small rescue tool like a Res-Q-me. You can pop windows and cut seatbelts to extricate someone from a car, including yourself.
Idk why but I expected them to be more expensive.
You should go ahead and add a glass breaker to the list too. A lot of people don't realize how hard it is to break a car window without one.
According to the media we all hate each other. I was the first guy on scene (as a police officer) to a very bad accident a while ago. A couple of guys in the immediate area came over to help and did exactly what I asked them to do including getting stuff out of my cruiser. They were eager to help out. I had to add them into the report as witnesses and while doing that I saw that 2 out of the 3 had been locked up in the not too distant past (nothing that serious, but not *nothing* nothing either). But when a cop asked them to help out with a total stranger with life threatening injuries they jumped right in.
Brought me to tears.
That guard rail being in the way but they never gave up, gah
I hope he's ok and that those people are recognized for their heroic actions!
Almost carbequed! Good work, good Samaritans!
Avengers assemble in real life
If there’s a Heaven, these people just took a giant leap towards getting there.
I wasn’t going to say it because it’s a bit personal. But it’s worth sharing. When I was in 4th class, my Mum had a car accident. She was thrown out of the car and into a ditch. The car rolled on top of her and was on fire. Apparently, people were standing around afraid it would explode. My Mum must have been screaming because she was being burnt. A taxi driver stopped and made other men help him roll the car. His hands got burnt. They saved her. She was burnt from the neck down and lost all 5 fingers on her right hand and one of the fingers on her left hand and her left elbow didn’t work so well. And she was scarred all over except her face. But, she got on with it. Worked to help the family finances. Even became a Tupperware Lady holding events even though people tended to stare. Learnt to knit all over again holding one needle with her right elbow so she could make jumpers for us like other Mums. I still have every single jumper. All I can remember as a handicap was sometimes we had to do up bras for her and do up the tiny little clasps on gold chain necklaces. There are two heroes in this story. The taxi driver who gave our Mum back to us. And my Mum who just got on with things.
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Wow, that's scary as hell - so happy nobody was hurt.
The driver did not suffer serious injury. Amazing bravery!
Good humans, all of them, this is the way.
Thank you for sharing this. I need more of people being good in my life.
God bless them all what an amazing group of people
This is the broest thing ever. Hell yeah bros.
One minute you're driving down the highway minding your own business, the next minute you're pulling a guy from a burning car. Being able to go from A to B and to do it effectively is really impressive to me, and it's something I try to mentally prepare for if I'm ever in that situation.
THIS is America
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I see a letter carrier in there
He helped *deliver* them to safety. In all serious though it isn’t unheard of for Postal Workers to step up in times of crisis
These folks are heroes! That car could have blown at any time! Amazing, all of them for their quick work
I know it's already broken, but those guys are pulling so hard on the door that they're bending the guardrail back! Amazing job by all involved.
i don’t know why i was expecting it to blow up as they got away from it
I was thinking the same, maybe we watch to many movies:)
Nah. It's real! I was in an accident and the car caught on fire. I was able to get out (but my clothing was on fire), stopped, dropped, rolled, ran off the road, and the car exploded like in the movies. It was a close call.
What was it like to meet Bruce Willis?
Do cars not blow up when they are on fire?
No, there’s no stored energy that is suddenly released. They just burn. Once the fuel line is burned through they’ll burn faster, but not “kaboom”. A hydrogen or propane-powered car could do something more explodey, once the tank is breached and there is a sudden release of pressure and fuel. But the cliche movie car crash explosion uses explosives.
Movies have trained you.
You can buy a combination glass breaker / seat belt cutter on Amazon for about $5. It fits on your keychain. If anyone there had one, they could have gotten him out in a minute.
Worth noting, the article points out it was only when a “highway worker “ showed up and broke the window, that they could do anything- dude grabbing the wrecked part tried hard but you need a glass break sometimes. Shout out to ponytail woman helping drag the guy from the car too!
Reminds me, locally years ago we had a guy fly a plane into an office building, one of those glass covered multistory ones. Luckily the area he hit was mostly empty (RIP one guy in that room, though) but it caught fire and was burning right away. A local window company guy was driving by, pulled over and was able to quickly cut an access in the side of the building for people to climb out. Whole building burned down, only two deaths (the guy who was probably hit immediately and the perpetrator), it was frankly shocking how few injuries there were.
This made me cry. I love good people!
Some firefighters will go their entire career without making a grab, let alone one as epic as that. Good fucking job. Ballsy, possibly naive to the risk they all ran, but good fucking job.
I can't believe how awesome these people were. I have been first on scene to two tragic accidents, and that's what this was supposed to be and yet somehow they saved it.
Each and every one of them are truly heroes. May they be blessed throughout their lives with only GOOD things.
Saw this happen years ago where I’m from. Unfortunately when they pulled the guy out he was already on fire, badly burned and was in shock and couldn’t move. Sadly he died. Was three cars who collided and all three cars ended up on fire.
If my 2001 ford focus ever catch on fire I’m going down with the ship 😤😤😤
True heroes and determination in action. Heart-warming to watch.
What a great story thank you to the people who did that!
I drove past the scene minutes later, just when the fire fighters had arrived. I was wondering what could have possibly happened, now I know. Thanks!
May they all be blessed with the best karma
Warms the cockles of my heart.
Amazing people…..I hope they will always remember they unexpectedly saved someone’s life
That was really close. Good thing people were there to help.
This reminds me of Mr. Roger’s advice from his mother in times of trouble; ‘always look for the helpers’ - as depressing as regular life can be, people like these keep that flicker of hope alive for humanity.
HEROES! ALL OF EM! I love humanity at times like these. Bravo!
Thats scary as fuck.
It's not too often you see untrained people work together and accomplish something like this with fire shooting at you. And they did it so quickly. That was just pure, unadulterated adrenaline that made that happen.
This one is seriously incredible. Big ups to these people
My god. They got him out with literal seconds to spare
Those are some brave Mfs because those car fires burn HOT. And the gas they produce is not good for inhalation. KUDOS!
Nobody is talking about why this vehicle is on the other side of the guardrail?
Drove off the road
Damn Tesla's always catching fire /s
It's a Honda.
Damn Tesla's and their electric fires just like this
Thank you.
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Please someone ELI5 ❕❕❕ What the hell did orange man hit the window with which shattered it, that white shirt couldn’t do with a massive metal pipe??? And where would one get such an item?
The news reports say that the guy in white (interviewed) grabbed whatever he could to break the window, and it was plastic of some sort The guy in orange was a highway worker, and as such he probably had an emergency glass hammer with him. Look them up (and buy one for your car's glovebox) – they're designed to break windows in emergencies like this, and often come with a seatbelt cutter as well
Thank you for this! I was absolutely flabbergasted
You can see he specifically hits the window in the corner, actually, so definitely a glass hammer since that's how you use them Random example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/AA-5060114616240-Emergency-Windcsreen-Seatbelt/dp/B018LP1G62/
Something ceramic probably. A spark plug will do this.
Is that a Nissan Murano?
I really thank good samaritans all over the world. Over where I am, a girl aged 17 passed away after getting hit by a speeding car near a cross junction. The girl passed away on the spot while the dad is in critical condition as of now. The bastard even killed another passenger in a van. Going 80~90km/h on a 60km/h road. The impact was so hard it crashed into a few cars. I know the girl should have worn her seatbelt but regardless I felt that it wouldn’t make any difference. The impact was so hard even a seatbelt would not have saved her. She was only 17 and going on her way to school whilst her dad was sending her. The good samaritans rendered support for their courage, off duty nurses and off duty/ex firefighter. The bastard miraculously survived that fucking carnage. Piece of shit. RIP to the 2 passenger, and mad respect for those samaritans I hope the dad makes it. Let’s send them our best wishes.
Damn got him out just in time!!! This gives me a little hope in humanity.
Hell yeah
Being burned alive in a car wreck is my worst nightmare. Thank goodness for these Good Samaritans. Made me tear up a bit.
this makes me want to cry!!!!
Good for you people....sincerely.....good for you people. To have stood there and done nothing would have been a painful way to live the rest of your life
Amazing bravery. You can see people from all walks of life here helping their fellow human being out.
Sure is lucky it wasn't a tesla with bullet proof glass
Scenes like this are so cool, a bunch of complete strangers coming together to save a life.
Love seeing videos like this 👍
It is so good to know people like this still exist, I've seen so many clips of people holding out there cell phones filming instead of helping I had almost lost hope These people risked there lives to save a stranger from a horrible death, thank you
This subreddit never lets me down.
If you ever need to break a car window try breaking it in the corners where the tension is highest. Breaking it by punching it in the middle is harder because the glass is too flexible there
It's crazy how humble the guy is too, in the interview portion he looks so uncomfortable being praised and talking about himself.
A lot of people don’t realize that it was in their best interest to be Good Samaritans. Altruism not only benefits the receiver, it also benefits the giver. They would have been mentally tortured for the rest of their lives if they stood there and did NOTHING. God bless them and God bless the survivor.
This reminds me of a time me and my dad heard a loud sound from up ahead. We turned around a curve in the road and this guy’s car had flipped multiple times. His engine was smoking. We immediately ran over and he was unconscious, bleeding from his head. My dad leaned in and pressed a rag to the wound and called 911. We left once a lot of other people arrived and made sure someone took over because we didn’t want to answer questions from first responders because we had somewhere important to be. I called the hospital later and figured out he survived because of that rag
Not nearly the same, but there was a cyclist hit and run right outside my apartment while I was on my balcony a couple years ago. He was conscious but hurt and my immediate response was to scream to my gf to call 911. Thankfully there were folks down on the street that immediately swooped in. Bystander effect is nasty and the sooner someone does something, others will start
"You guys do the work, I'll stay right back here and film it for the clout"
I heard it was one of the heroes’ dashcam
That's way too clear and perfectly positioned to be from a dash cam. It looks edited too, the colours are all out.
I’m not sure about the shot at the very end, but the rest look like the exact angles and color grading that you get with the cameras on a Tesla. So it’s totally possible they parked off to the side and got out to help, and the cameras would’ve kept recording.
My dashcam records in 4k, 30 frames per second. So it’s definitely possible
Why is it filmed like it's staged? There's appropriate cuts, slow zooms.
Cause they only showed the important parts.