South Fulton County

South Fulton man helps rescue driver from fiery car crash

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. — A driver lost control and crashed, causing the vehicle to explode. The driver might not be alive today if it weren’t for a brave witness, who stopped to help.

The crash happened in South Fulton on Flat Shoals Parkway.

Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes was in South Fulton County where she spoke to that good Samaritan exclusively.

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When Orenthro Hollis saw the driver of a neon yellow Camaro weaving in and out of traffic, he had no idea ,the driver was about to lose control.

“When he passed me, he got over to the right, he tried to get back over to the left to pass another car, he spun out and spun into oncoming traffic,” Hollis explained.

The driver hit a red car head-on, but somehow they were ok.

“I saw the people getting out of the red car and I’m just saying to myself...no one is coming out of the yellow car. I’m looking around and nobody is doing nothing but recording, so I just jumped out and took off running toward the yellow car,” Hollis said.

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Hollis said the driver in the Camaro was unconscious. He was tall and the steering wheel had him trapped.

“The steering wheel was like almost in his lap and ya know I couldn’t see that because of the smoke. I just kept pulling on him and then I realized he wasn’t coming because the steering wheel had him trapped because he’s so tall. I just reached in and grabbed one of his legs and that freed him up and I was able to pull him out,” Hollis explained.

Hollis saw people watching him struggle to rescue the driver and was hollering for help.

“I just saw cell phones and people recording but nobody was coming to help,” Hollis said.

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Hollis is the type of person you want around you if you’re in trouble.

Firefighters said if Hollis didn’t pull over and helped this unconscious driver, the driver probably wouldn’t be recovering in the hospital right now.

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