Man bends car door and saves driver who was about to go ablaze. According to Bob Renning, "pure adrenaline" amped him up to pry open the door of an SUV that was on fire. He reportedly bent the door until the windows shattered on the evening of Sunday along New Brighton's Interstate 35W.
The 52-yearold man bends car door as he heard the victim, Michael Johannes, 51 years old, who was trying to get out of the 2006 Chevy Trailblazer through its passenger door. He said, "He was kicking and beating the window trying to break it open from the inside. I knew I didn't have a lot of time." The car was slowly being filled with smoke as flames kept getting bigger and bigger from under it.
Renning was heading south near County Road D when he spotted huge tongues of flame shooting out from under an SUV that was six or seven car lengths from where he was. He only saw this image on his mirror, but he quickly responded and rescued the Johannes by using his sheer force.
According to Johannes, he only purchased the Trailblazer a week ago, but he immediately knew that he was in trouble when his brakes started to fail. In addition to the brake malfunction, he noticed that there was smoke coming out from under his vehicle and that the car's interior was slowly being filled with it as he drove down the Interstate at 65 miles per hour.
Renning said that he immediately slowed down his vehicle in order to catch Johannes' attention, although the latter was already highly preoccupied with what was going on inside his vehicle. Renning's girlfriend was in the car with him and he immediately informed his partner to call 911 as he headed for the burning car.
Meanwhile, Johannes could not get out of his own car since he was locked in. According to his report, an electrical malfunction caused his SUV to automatically lock.
It was a good thing that Renning was driving this way at the time that he did. Man bends car door by grabbing the top portion of the door's frame and leveraged his body against it. He just kept on pulling until the glass broke into countless pieces.
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