Modest Mystery Man Saved Woman from Fireball Death

A New Jersey woman narrowly avoided a fiery death in yesterday’s crash on the Long Island Expressway, thanks to an anonymous Good Samaritan. On Saturday morning a gasoline tanker clipped Marie Medina’s Dodge Neon when she stalled on the L.I.E. near exit 48. The truck flipped on its side and exploded into a giant fireball that killed driver Mujahid Shahin, a Brooklyn man in his fifties, according to the NY Post. But someone pulled Medina from her vehicle before she became the accident's second casualty. "He saved me. I kept thanking him," said the woman, who has only minor injuries. Just this morning, officials re-opened eastbound lanes on the expressway, reported AP.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on January 24, 2010 11:54 AM

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Mr Mel

Truck drivers should vetted like airline pilots. There are more of them. They kill more people than the Taliban, Al Quaeda and the State of Texas.

NannyState

I hope she knows how lucky she is. I once saw a similar wreck where a tanker truck plowed into an extremely slow moving subcompact. The force of impact pushed the small car driver through the windshield and onto the highway in front of her own car. The tanker pushed her car over her and then it went over her and exploded, damaging an overpass. Crappy car + inattentive trucker = boo boo.

mellow_fellow

You sure you didn't see that in a movie?

grandzu

So failure to maintain her car caused the death of the truck driver. Her liability should guilt her for the rest of her life.

sj

She will be sentenced to a fate worse than death: driving a Dodge Neon for the rest of her life.

Mr. Shankly

Go easy. It's a Chrysler product.

mellow_fellow

I assume her car didn't come to a dead stop as soon as it stalled. No doubt he either wasn't paying attention or he was following her too closely.