A man in DeLand, Florida is recovering from a dramatic car crash that sent his vehicle tumbling across a parking lot Saturday.
A surveillance camera at a business nearby captured the car going airborne before it flipped several times and landed upside down.
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Witnesses quickly ran to the smoking car to help the driver.
“People came over with fire extinguishers to put out the fire,” witness Morgan Bissel told WESH 2 News.
“We flipped the car over and pulled the guy out so he didn’t burn alive.”
Those trying to help reportedly couldn’t pull the driver out of the window because the car was crushed.
Instead, witnesses said a group of men flipped the car on its side, cut the driver free from his seat belt and pulled him out through the vehicle’s sunroof.
“I start pulling him out and another guy about my age helps me pull him out of the car and then cops and paramedics took over and did their job, really,” Keeling King told WESH 2 News.
The driver was rushed to the Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford by helicopter and was treated for trauma sustained during the crash. He is now in stable condition.
Neither paramedics, nor police have released the man’s identity.
Witnesses said the car was reportedly on the highway before it lost control, hit a mailbox and flipped in the parking lot.
“It probably did four or five 360s in the air,” King said.
Police have not said what exactly caused the accident.
Witnesses said they’re happy that everyone was quick to save the driver.
“If it weren’t for the bystanders, he wouldn’t have made it, at least this far,” Bissel said.
Nobody else was injured in the crash.
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