Driver recounts saving woman from fiery Tesla crash [Video]

Rick Harper was driving on Lake Shore Boulevard early Thursday morning on his way to a Canada Post plant in Mississauga when he saw flames ahead of him.

A Tesla had just lost control, crashed into a guardrail, and struck a concrete pillar just after 12:15 a.m. The vehicle, with five occupants inside, then caught fire.

Harper recalled seeing five to six feet of flames above the front hood of the car.

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Equipped with a fire extinguisher, Harper decided to pull over and help.

“But as soon as I got out of the truck, they were yelling, you know, that they needed a bar or something to break the window because they were basically pounding the window with their hands, and that wasn’t getting anybody anywhere. So, I grabbed the bar out of the truck I had,” Harper recounted to CTV News Toronto on Friday.

He and another person, who …