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An off-duty Army Captain is being called a hero after he rescued a couple from an explosive, fiery head-on crash on Sunday afternoon.
The crash happened around 3 p.m. on O’Kelly Chapel Road near Highway 751 in Chatham County, according to WNCN.
The driver of a silver Chrysler SUV traveled left of center and collided head-on with a red Acura sedan.
Fortunately, Army Captain Steve Voglezon, who was appropriately wearing a ‘Captain America’ T-shirt, happened to be passing the scene on his way to the mall with his girlfriend and ran to help.
Incredible video taken by a witness and shared with WNCN shows the vehicles on fire as a police officer attempts to open the couple’s locked crumpled doors.
Voglezon then grabs a fire extinguisher and uses it to smash the windows of the couple’s vehicle before pulling out Mr Thompson and dragging him to the roadside.
Voglezon used a fire extinguisher to break the windows of the sedan and rescue the couple inside. Eyewitness video shows Voglezon dragging the driver of the sedan to safety as firefighters arrived.
All three people in the crash were taken to the hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
John Spurrell, who lives nearby, helped rescue Ricketts from his burning Chrysler before grabbing his cell phone to start recording the scene.
He said speeding is a constant problem there and he’s asked officials to reconsider the 50 miles per hour speed limit.
“These kinds of excessive speeds on these little country roads result in that kind of catastrophe. People need to slow down,” Spurrell said.
Spurrell credits Capt. Voglezon with saving lives, but the man others are calling a hero said he was just doing his job.
“We have a calling to do whatever we we’re called to do,” Capt. Voglezon said. “Today I was called to be there at that spot at that time.”
