Car Explodes Seconds After FedEx Driver Rescues Unconscious Woman From Accident
- Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:31pm by
Liz Klimas
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An accident on a highway near Grass Valley, Calif., last Thursday was like that of a Hollywood movie scene.
Car and semi-truck crash. Diesel fuel from the semi leaks onto the highway. The driver of the car remains inside the vehicle unconscious. Enter heroic FedEx truck driver to rescue the unconscious motorist in the nick of time.
(Image: KTVU screenshot)
KCRA reports 11-year FedEx employee Scott Teuscher saying he saw the female driver of the Honda Civic, which was already on fire when fuel began leaking from the semi.
Scott Teuscher rescued a woman from an accident scene just seconds before her car exploded. (Image: KTVU screenshot)
In an interview with local news stations, including KTVU, Teuscher said he first thought everyone was out of the vehicles when he arrived on the scene. Asking spectators if everyone was alright, Teuscher said, “they said ‘well here’s the truck driver.‘ And I said ’OK, what about the car?‘ They said ’we don’t know.‘ I said ’you don’t know?!’” That’s when he kicked it into high gear, seeing the woman in the car and removing her.
Teuscher said it was “literally 30 seconds later” that the car exploded after he removed the woman who was later taken to the hospital.
(Image: KTVU screenshot)
Still, Teuscher doesn’t consider his actions heroic.
“I would just hope someone would do the same thing for me and my family.”
In true movie-script form, Teuscher went back to completing his work once the woman was taken away by paramedics.
Watch Teuscher’s interview and video of the accident scene from KCRA:
(H/T: Jalopnik)
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:09amWonderful man and really, who would ‘drop their i-phone’ in order to actually save someone these days.
Now the reality: This driver will be pulled in to the FedEx office and strongly reprimanded (leave without pay, etc.) if he’s lucky, otherwise he will simply be fired. Why? He went against policy and left his truck / route for reason other than policy allows. It’s a twisted sick world, and there are people who probably bitched to F/E because their delivery was 20min. late. Big ol‘ FedEx isn’t going to give a rats behind why this man did what he did, simply that he went against policy. And ”god forbid” if this wonderful man didn’t lock his truck prior to saving this womans life, and “corporate office” WILL check the entire time frame. These trucks are ‘wired’ to record everything the driver does, including how many left turns the vehicle made in a 30 day period.
Summary: If America and OWS is supposed to be all about equality and ‘love’, this would be an everyday story. But these days most people would be digging for their i-phones to video that next big “youtube hit”, instead of being a true hero like this man. GREAT JOB! You deserve a vacation bonus for thinking about this person in need instead of the stern ‘hand slap’ coming your way!
Report Post »Machtyn
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:34amActually, FedEx is pretty liberal (not Liberal) with their policies. Or they have been in the past.
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:26amHe totally delivered “The Purple Promise”. This isn’t the first time we had one of our drivers do something like this. Glad to see somebody go above and beyond in helping their fellow man.
Report Post »Conservative2
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:32amThere are still good people out there, thanks Scott.
What’s sad is he had to ask other people watching if every one got out of the vehicles. They apparently had no concern about the occupant in the car or were Democrats!
Report Post »lotus143
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:26pmThanks for your service Mr. T.
Report Post »Hey FedEx how ’bout a bonus here?
Virgil_Lance
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:56pmWhat a heroic guy! A company could not buy this kind of favorable publicity. I‘m glad to see that he wasn’t fired like a Florida lifeguard.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:35pmGood man! Glad he had the presence of mind to act. Thank God he saved the woman in the car.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:49pmHello?
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:48pmWhy didn’t obama save her…..oh yeah, he only knows how to destroy things. He couldn’t save his cow wife from a flaming box of donuts.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:03amObama Derangement Syndrome
Report Post »badswing
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:46pmisn‘t it a shame that with all the people that are on disability even tho they don’t have one, all the people who walk off with millions in frivolous lawsuits etc ,that this guy can’t somehow walk away with a million?
Report Post »Citizenone
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:45pmNo, Obama saved this lady. If it weren’t for the fact that He (the Gov’t) provided the roads for the FedRX guy to drive on, the FedEx guy could not have been there in the first place. Thanks Obama you deserve a metal. As for the FedEX guy he shoud thank the Gov’t for allowing him to drive on the road.
Report Post »crushynn
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:25pmPerfect!
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:47pmLOL — without those gov’t roads the accident never would have happened, too!
Report Post »nativetexanne
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:50pmJust a note: it wasn’t the government that saved that woman, it was an American individual with heart. Good on you, Scott T.
Report Post »EJ1979
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:39pmIn dire times the men that you would never expect anything from, will rise up and be leaders and heros, like this guy.
Report Post »Angel_light
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:51pmand God bless them
Report Post »team1blazer
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:06pmFed Ex WILL promote this guy! Good company, hiring good people, training them well, and getting GREAT results. The US govt. could take some lessons.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:35amAnd unlike UPS, FedEx is non-union.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:04pmyou are a real American and a hero , most people today would get out a video recorder and watched her burned hoping to get on the news
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:43pmIf it had been a union UPS driver, the woman would be dead. He probably would not have stopped, because it’s “not his job.”
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:51pmShut up stupid. I know a few UPS drivers and they are decent Americans, family people just like the majority. Just because they are forced to be union to get a decent job especially in this economy does not make them inhuman as you are attempting to portray them all here.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:25pm@DR VEL:
Report Post »You are right: not all Union members are bad. There are still some decent people in Unions, too.
American Unions are like Unions and the Communist Party of the USSR: the membership was the only way to make the person’s life more or less survivable in exchange for selling the soul.
But nevertheless a few people managed to remain decent.
Mapache
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:32pmWell, he should be in a FEDEX Commercial, “We Deliver!”
Report Post »Whats up with that
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:31pmWas it a Chevy Volt?
Report Post »Lothmar
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:02pmAnd then he’ll get fired because he violated company policy in intervening ; followed by a big write in campaign and suddenly he’ll have his job back. ~chuckle~
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:46pmCongrads Scott T. your a good man! awesome! you deserve a week off with pay!
Report Post »pschlentz
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:52pmI”m with you, that man is an American Hero! Great job, thanks for being an example for the people of America…
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