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DETROIT – Several people stopped to help a man from a burning car that crashed on Northwestern Highway in Farmington Hills Saturday night.
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“If I didn’t get to him by the time the police got to him, it would have been too late,” said Border Patrol Agent John Leslie.
Leslie described the heart-stopping moment he noticed a man trapped inside an SUV after a single-vehicle crash on Northwestern highway.
“My wife in the passenger seat looked and said ‘John, there’s a car on fire,’” said Leslie, who is also a trained EMT. “I’m thinking to myself ‘I gotta get this guy out of here or I am going to watch him burn.’ So I poked my head into the driver door and I can see the driver over there. He was semi unconscious.”
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