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Stunning Video: Bystanders Lift Car Off Victim After Calif. Highway Crash

We’ve seen incredible videos of bystanders lifting cars to free victims in the past, and this one is just as stunning. WFMY-TV reports:

One person was killed and several others hurt when a pickup truck rolled over on Interstate 10 east of Desert Center, California Sunday.

One of the surviving victims was freed from the vehicle by passers-by who together managed to lift the overturned vehicle enough to pull a woman from the cab of the truck.

From cell-phone video taken of the rescue, it appeared that another person was still inside after the woman was freed. It is not known whether that person also survived.

And here’s the video:

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 6:35pm

    Its just the right thing to do, and I would want someone to do the same for me, if i was in the same situation, God bless these people and the victims, hope they are alright!

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  • NOT A CRAZY
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 5:10pm

    Stunning? When are you going to start using words that actually describe the event? This might be slightly interestesting to someone but it is not “stunning.” They barely rolled the pickup back a few inches. Whooopeeeee! What they did was the right thing but it was not “stunning.”

    Webster: Stunning -
    1: causing astonishment or disbelief
    2: strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence

    Uhhhhhhhh, nope ‘fraid not.

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 3:23am

      In todays world people doing the right thing and helping other people in trouble is
      “1: causing astonishment or disbelief
      2: strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence”

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  • hortik
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 2:51pm

    The people who stopped and helped were great human beings. The lines of people on both sides of the highway who decided it was OK to just take their vehicles off-road and drive anywhere they want on the fragile desert soil to bypass the traffic-jam instead of merging with the other drivers into the unblocked traffic lanes and waiting their turn… not so great.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 3:23pm

      Yeah, I hate it when people have the nerve to leave their tire tracks in the dirt. Please tell me you aren’t worried about smashed weeds that grow on the side of the road?

      Did it ever occur that their could be debris they are trying to avoid or to give as much right-of-way to the crash site so as not to possibly strike by-standers or people helping?

      Just a thought.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 4:06pm

      With all the hate and anger we read about almost daily, this story made me want to cry. This was wonderful these people stopped and helped as much as they could. It’s uplifting to know there are still good people in the world.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 5:12pm

      Hortnik = idiot

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    • oldschoolgreen
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 5:14pm

      Hortik
      Are you kidding me? The desert and the environment in general are way bigger and more resilient than a little stretch of sand that was driven on for a couple of hours.
      Wow, even us evil Californians stopped and helped. Maybe we’re not so bad after all.

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    • benshivd
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 6:42pm

      OMG NOT THE DIRT ! The travesty !

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  • Mattyboy
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 1:45pm

    Whoa, I am sooooo stunned. Cars are more than half plastic anyway, plus add some adrenaline to the mix.

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  • GingerB
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 1:36pm

    I have been awaiting a “Gathering of Angels”. It will happen when all Christians and Jews realize that we need to all stand together under our God and Father. When I read of a group of people getting together for the good of another, as in this story, I think, “Here we go Father.” Your Angels are beginning to gather………. We are in the Advent Season. a time of preparation for the Christ Child.
    Angels are with us to help us prepare for the one, child and God who would save us and ultimately guide us to our reward in Heaven. As I watch Glenn Beck and the people he has surrounded himself with, I see another “Gathering of Angels.”

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 1:25pm

    Do these accident victims know how lucky they were to crash in a spot where the only 6 capitalists in California where at the time. Those helping had to be capitalists because liberals would have waited around until the government came to help.

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  • bobemakk
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 1:25pm

    I have seen robberies and purse snatchers and beatings happen on TV and passersby just ignore the situation. Thank God there were some passersby in this case that risked their lives to save this person and I pray they survived. These people should be recognized someway or somehow by the local authorities for risking their lives.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:47pm

    Where’s the video? Thank God that the good people stopped to help.

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    • Falsegods
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Use this same concept: I and many people say something wakes them at 3:00am, I have heard that this is the hour of the Lord.
      If everyone who is awakened at 3am, would pray for the hearts and souls of man to listen to God,
      Peace might exist for everyone.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 5:53pm

      @Falsegods…..What if you work third shift and aren’t sleeping?. does God pass you by?

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  • PoliticalJunkieToo
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:38pm

    Any time now the EPA or some other Nanny State FEDERAL government agency will make a ruling that passerby cannot help victims and Congress which by Constitution law is supposed to make law – not EPA or other unelected bureaucracies – will do nothing to stop the law. Congress has abdicated it power to declare war to the president, to coin money to a private bank The Federal Reserve and the powers of passing legislation over to a bunch of unelected EPA type of agencies.

    The “do not help passerby” law will claim it is to look out for “the folk’s safety“ ”and Bill O’Reilly will cheer that and so will the people who believe in 4 amendment violation TSA pat downs in airports and now along our highways and the Patriot Act anti-Constitution warrant-less searches on Americans. . Apparently, Bill Orielly and the others have never read Ben Franklen. Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither.

    Unions will be happy because government police and firemen are union members – more work for them dragging bodies out of cars and if ObamaCare achieves its ultimate goal of a public option and all hospital workers becoming government employees and therefore public union employees, think how busy those unionized nurses and doctors will be taking care of car accident victims made worse tangled up in a car so long because bystanders had to stay away but hey, even if they die, hospital morgue workers would fall under ObamaCare too.

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    • Falsegods
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:52pm

      If everyone has faith the size of a mustard seed,
      evil will be overtaken, in the name of God.

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  • yiddishlion
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:48am

    I didn’t see any lifting of a vehicle…….

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    • CCRYDER
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:48pm

      About 10 sec or so, there were three men pushing up the vehicle behind the guy in the red shirt and he appears to be pulling the door open more as they pull the woman from the truck. Not actually “lifting up” more like pushing it upwards to make room to take hold of the woman.

      Doesn’t surprise me that so many people were helping – we are essentially a good people and country but it is being stolen from us and we better get going, get active, and on our representatives big time if we are going to save the country (and maybe the world) from the socialist communist enemy operating within our country and around the globe.

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  • djmaine
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:36am

    I hope the wet road on the other side of the vehicle was antifreeze and not gasoline.

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    • yiddishlion
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:46am

      It doesn’t matter as they are both just as flammable.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:17pm

      YIDDISHLION

      Really? I did not know that.

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    • HYPNOTOAD
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:39pm

      No, it is NOT just a flammable as gasoline. Its flash point in a closed cup is 111 degrees Celsius, plus the lower explosion limit is 3.2% by volume. So it is flammable, but not very.

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    • chips1
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 2:05pm

      Know what else is flammable? Obama. He’s a flaming idiot.

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  • ShineTheLightBrighter
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:29am

    Not sure what credit to give these folks other than there willingness to assist. If you notice in the Video a CHP officer is coordinating the event. That means that person was under that vehicle for quite a while until the officer got there and got people to help move the truck. Still in a sue happy country it was nice that they assisted the officer. Hope those who survived are doing well.

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  • Countrygirl1362
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:26am

    It is so wonderful to see good come out of something bad. Great job to the folks that helped.

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  • last frontier
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:25am

    That’s the pre nanny state way, that’s the way America use to be Now they will get a citation for impersonating a rescue worker and endangering the occupant in the vehicle, and probably some other fine from the EPA for spilling fuel.

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    • korbin
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:11pm

      Yep, your not a “hero” unless you have a badge and a billion dollars worth of tax payer training. God forbid a “civilian” helps out not being trained and all.

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:25am

    Good job human species. We DO have a chance.

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  • Bobby D
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:08am

    How bad the crash, yet how good the fine folks who stop to HELP!

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  • RRFlyer
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:07am

    I can’t believe all the sarcasm and smart remarks coming from some of you people. How can you criticize when people do good?

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:27am

      My sarcasm was directed at the title of this article. Whereas the deed was truly great, the last thing I felt after the video was stunned.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:04am

    Now, if we REAL AMERICANS can lift the wreckage of the current administration off our backs and untangle the overreaching tentacles of “friends of the admin”, we will be heroes.

    Anyone up for a REAL AMERICAN challenge?

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  • OniKaze
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:01am

    Good work everyone…

    I had a similar thing happen one day on my way to a customer site.. I was going down the interstate when a Van rolled from the on-comming lane, rolled through the median, and landed (I kid you not) about 8 to 10 inches from my front bumper.. Me and one other driver got out to help them (while everyone else sat and watched) we got 4 kids, 2 teenagers and their mother (who’s dumbass was talking on a cell phone when she lost control of the van) freed from the wreckage within about 5 minutes… Me and the other “Kind-Gentleman” rocked the vehicle to get the van off of the woman’s foot (which had been pinned under part of the car) and her and everyone else may have been cut up from the glass, but seemed to be fine regardless.

    Felt good to help them (and berate the woman for nearly killing her family just to text on her cell phone), but you should have seen it.. When I arrived at the customer facility (about an hour late) I was covered in blood from helping remove people from the van, and the look on the receptionist’s face was priceless…. She looked at me and said, “Ohh my god, are you okay??” and feeling kinda silly, I just looked at her, and didn’t offer ANY explination, I just looked at her and said, “Ohh don’t worry, its not MY blood….”

    You could tell my lack of elaboration kinda freaked her out, as you could tell she was wondering Whose it was….”

    Ahh… good times..

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  • thegodfather
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:00am

    In Chicago, they would have lifted the car…then the guys wallet.

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  • twistin
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 10:58am

    These are not the folks who walk over dead people on Black Friday to shop.

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:43am

      My first thought was, good thing it didn’t happen near walmart last Friday.

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  • WAR PIGS CRAWLING
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 10:44am

    Whew!!!!……glad there was someone willing to go the extra mile and record the incident on their cell phone……..

    I’m glad the “Good Samaritan” had the bravery to hold a frick’n cell phone while others stepped up to help…….

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 10:35am

    Wow, that was stunning. How did those 20 people find the strength to lift that vehicle 3 inches to free the injured motorist?!?!?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:29am

      Funny, but true. But I think the point is that other places like China the people will just walk on by a toddler struck by a van.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:34am

      In China or Africa they would have thought “Oh look, road-kill, should we take it home and eat it?”

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:37am

      God’s going to punish those rotten countries and continents.

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    • chips1
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 2:11pm

      He already did. AIDS and Muslims.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 10:35am

    They are the hero’s that all Americans have inside them.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on November 28, 2011 at 10:29am

    God bless them for their kindness and efforts, hope she survives. they are hero’s, every one.

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