Crowd Lifts Car to Rescue Injured Motorcyclist from Burning Car – Raw Video 9/13/11

Here is truly amazing video that was floating around yesterday, and I failed to get it posted. It shows a group of citizens coming to the rescue of a motorcyclist trapped under a burning car after an accident. Once they figured out the man was under the car, they worked together to actually lift the car up on its side while someone else dragged the man out from under the car.

The motorcyclist suffered some major injuries, but no head trauma, and is expected to recover. The Washington Post has the man’s story:

WASHINGTON POST: The students knew they had to act quickly when they disregarded the dangers of approaching a smoking car and rushed to help lift it so a man — trapped beneath with a motorcycle just feet away in flames — could be freed.

Abbass Sharif remembers only that something needed to be done as he, a fellow Utah State University doctoral candidate and more than half dozen others lined up on one side of the 4,000-pound car. They were able to lift it within moments, allowing one of the rescuers to pull Brandon Wright to safety. . . . Read More