Here is a new example that the adage "together we are stronger" has a great deal of truth.
Saturday, May 28, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a motorcycle driver found himself trapped under a vehicle after it hit him from behind.
Thanks to the people present on the scene at the time of the accident, the victim was able to be extracted, and to escape the worst.
Footage from Ocean Boulevard surveillance cameras taken on Saturday afternoon shows the driver arriving at full speed on the motorcycle, and hitting the motorcycle and two people on it.
The passenger ejected forward by the violence of the collision, while the car straddles the driver of the two-wheeler, thus pinning him under its weight.
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Several witnesses to the scene - officers from the Myrtle Beach police - as well as bystanders who witnessed the scene, rushed to the car in an attempt to free the victim.
The strength and the union of about twenty people, will have made it possible to free the man, imprisoned under the machine.
Myrtle Beach police say the driver has been arrested.
In addition to not having respected the safety distances, he is accused of having driven while having with him an open bottle of alcohol.