One of the five men who jumped in to save a man from a burning vehicle Monday in Mississauga said the rescue happened “literally the nick of time” before the car exploded in flames.<\/p>\n
Ben Sykes says he and his wife were driving on the QEW when they saw a moving vehicle on fire that eventually crashed into a ditch.<\/p>\n
He says “I saw somebody with a car jack in their hand, heading towards the vehicle quickly and then started to hit the window. And so I guess at that minute, I sort of felt like ‘Well, I got to help here.’ And so I jumped out of the car and, you know, just did what I could to try and help at the moment,”.<\/p>\n
A video of the incident, tweeted by the OPP Wednesday evening, shows smoke billowing from the stopped vehicle as five men attempted to rescue the driver. The OPP says the driver, a 36-year-old man from Toronto, experienced a medical episode during the incident.<\/p>\n
The men then jumped into action to help free the unconscious man trying to punch and kick out he windows. They said thankfully there was a guy in a dump truck that threw a hammer out the window which they used to smash the window and rescue the man and within 30 seconds of pulling hime out the vehicle burst into flames.<\/p>\n
The OPP says the driver sustained no injuries and is alive today because of the men’s “heroic efforts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today’s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 12:15:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/07\/a-dramatic-rescue-near-toronto\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30335,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions\/30335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}