IT IS FORTUNATE NO ONE WAS KILLED. >> OPEN THE FRONT DOOR AND IT WAS LIKE THE APOCALYPSE, SOMETHING I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. >> YOU SEE IT AND STILL CAN’T BELIEVE IT. >> LIKE A HAND GRENADE OR MORT GOING OFF. IN THE MILITARY, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS LIKE. >> 28-YEAR-OLD AUSTIN SMITH OF MEDFORD CRASHED ON LAWRENCE RD. THE SUV IGNITED AND HE SURVIVED. >> HE WAS HYSTERICAL, “I DON’T WANT TO GO OUT THIS WAY.” I TRIED KNOCKING THE FIRE DOWN. >> SOME NEIGHBORS TELL US EYTH PRAN OUT IN THIER UNDERWEAR AND USED MULTIPLE KITCHEN FIRE EXTINGUISHERS. THE FLAMES ALL AROUD THEM YET, THEY SAVE THE DRIVER BEFORE ME DFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED. >> SQUEEZED THE DOOR OPEN DAN PULLED HIM THROUGH THE DOOR. >> MY HUSBAND AND NEIGHBORS INHALED A LOT OF SMOKE. >> I WASN’T THINKING ABOUT THE DRIVER OR CAR THINKING ABOUT MY NEIGHBOR. WHO CAI RE ABOUT. >> LAWRENCE ROAD HAS A BEND RESIDENTS SAY SPEED IS OFTEN AN ISSUE. THE SUV TAGGING THE HUGE TREE SLINOWG IT DOWN. POLICE ARE INVESITAGING ATWH HAPPENED. >>PPENED. COULD HAVE HAD A MEDICAL EMERNCGEY. THE UNFORTUNATE RTPA IS COMING FROM THE DIRECTION THE GENTLEMAN CAME FROM, IF HE MISSED THE CORNER, WHICH HE CLEARLY DID, ALL OF THESE HOUSES ARE IN THE DIRECT LINE OF IMPACT. >> THE EXPLOSION SEEMED IMMEDIATE. >> POLIC OFFICERS LATER SAID HE WAS NOT SERIOUSLY BURNED OR ANYTHING, AND IT IS AMAZING. THIS GUY IS SO LUCKY. >> THE VICTIM IS AT MSAS GENERAL HOSPITAL. HIS MOM TOLD POLICE HE IS DOING GREAT. AMAZING NEIGHBORHOOD CAMARADERIE AROUND HERE.
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Video: Neighbors pull driver out of burning SUV after wild crash
Updated: 8:55 AM EDT Apr 9, 2022
Several people jumped into action early Friday and pulled a driver out of a burning sport utility vehicle after it crashed through a tree and into a home in Medford, Massachusetts. Doorbell video shows the SUV, driven by 28-year-old Austin Smith, barreling toward the home and crashing into the residence before it burst into flames. The crash happened around 1 a.m.Neighbors are seen yanking on the door and pulling the driver out of the burning wreckage. Some used kitchen fire extinguishers to fight the flames. “Fortunately, it was a whole neighborhood effort,” said Bill Radochia.Smith’s mother told police her son, amazingly, was not badly hurt and was recovering at Mass. General Hospital. She said no one has any idea what sent him out of control.
Several people jumped into action early Friday and pulled a driver out of a burning sport utility vehicle after it crashed through a tree and into a home in Medford, Massachusetts.
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Doorbell video shows the SUV, driven by 28-year-old Austin Smith, barreling toward the home and crashing into the residence before it burst into flames. The crash happened around 1 a.m.
Neighbors are seen yanking on the door and pulling the driver out of the burning wreckage. Some used kitchen fire extinguishers to fight the flames.
“Fortunately, it was a whole neighborhood effort,” said Bill Radochia.
Smith’s mother told police her son, amazingly, was not badly hurt and was recovering at Mass. General Hospital. She said no one has any idea what sent him out of control.
