Good Samaritan captured on video dragging man from fiery crash
A Massachusetts man who was seen on video pulling a badly injured stranger from a burning vehicle on the side of an interstate says he had no choice but to drag the driver away from the flames.
Greg Budgell, of Dracut, was on his way to work when he saw the crash. He stopped his own car and ran across the interstate to help.
"I saw people in need and I just had to help them," he said.
Harold Greer, another driver who stopped to help, caught the dramatic rescue on his dash camera. Footage shows Budgell pulling the driver away from the fiery wreck.
"It's something else, when you see someone do something so great for somebody in trouble," Greer said.
The driver had injured both legs and one arm. He couldn't have escaped the burning vehicle on his own.
"He told me he only had one good arm, which is why I was dragging him that way," Budgell said. "I kinda just looked him and said, 'I've gotta drag you, man, this car is about to go up. Gotta do it,' and I just dragged him up the hill."
Several other people stopped along the busy highway to help Greer and Budgell get the driver and a passenger to safety. Greer said both people were seriously hurt in the crash.
"(The driver) was in agony. They were both in bad shape," Greer said. "You felt the heat. You felt when the tires blew and when the gas tank went. You felt the blast from it."
The driver and the passenger injured in the crash were later taken to a hospital for treatment. According to his girlfriend, the driver suffered several broken bones and was scheduled to have surgery Wednesday afternoon.