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For the second time in a week, a Virginia state trooper has rescued a motorist from a burning car on Interstate 66 in Fairfax County, this time after a four-car crash yesterday that left a driver unconscious and his minivan in flames.
Trooper K.J. Brown, 28, is credited with saving the life of James R. Campbell, 72, of Arlington County, who police said had some sort of medical problem as he drove a Dodge Caravan west on I-66 about 11:50 a.m. While Brown was seated in his cruiser, writing a traffic ticket on the left shoulder of the highway, he saw the Caravan veer out of control and strike a Dodge Charger, setting off a chain reaction of collisions, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.
The Caravan careened over to the right side of the highway and into an embankment, then started burning. Brown and the motorist he had pulled over dashed to the minivan, Geller said, but the doors were jammed shut.
Brown used his retractable baton to smash out the Caravan's driver-side window and pulled Campbell out, Geller said. A Fairfax fire supervisor who came to the scene told Brown's sergeant that "if the trooper was not there, there's no way the man would have made it," Geller said.
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