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Dallas Truck Accident On LBJ Freeway Ends In Fiery Rescue
Posted on Mar 31, 2010
A dramatic Dallas truck crash on the LBJ Freeway could have ended in tragedy earlier this month, but instead it produced two heroes. A Dallas Fire Department member and a recent immigrant helped pull a car accident victim from a burning vehicle.
According to Texas State Police, 39-year-old Vickie Roberson was traveling down the LBJ Freeway outside of northeast Dallas on February 25 when she collided with an 18-wheeler. The Texas truck crash caused Roberson’s car to roll several times and then catch fire after it came to rest on the side of the freeway. Roberson’s leg was trapped as flames engulfed the car around her.
Luckily, two bystanders, 22-year-old Addissu Andabo, a Dallas auto mechanic, and 33-year-old Sherrie Wilson, an off-duty Dallas Fire-and-Rescue veteran, ran to help the TX car accident victim. While Wilson freed the woman’s crushed and broken led, Andabo broke through the windshield of the car and pulled Roberson out.
Roberson is now healing at Baylor University Medical Center and says that she would have died if not for the help of the two heroes of the day that helped her from the wreckage. The truck driver suffered minor injuries. While Roberson purports that the car accident took place after the big rig driver cut her off, witnesses to the accident reported that Roberson was distracted and veering out of her lane at the time of the accident. There is some evidence that she may have been talking on a cell phone. The TX truck accident is still under investigation.
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