Larry Pickett Jr and his father pulled the driver out shortly before it erupted in flames after colliding into utility poles
A member of the US army academy’s college football team has been hailed as “heroic” after he and his father pulled the driver of a wrecked car out of the vehicle shortly before it erupted in flames over the Labor Day weekend, according to officials and video of the daring rescue.
The video depicted Larry Pickett Jr and his father, Larry Pickett Sr, as they took a man out of the driver’s seat of the car and then carried him to safety across a four-lane highway early Sunday.
“Larry, come on! Come on, get him out – that’s it!” a woman screamed on the video, which soon showed the car engulfed in fire as well as surrounded by sparking wires.
Pickett Jr’s sister, Lauren, recorded the video after the white sedan smashed into a utility pole on a road in Fort Montgomery, New York, about four miles from the US army academy in West Point.
