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Highway hero.(Douglas Crawford managed to tackle with highway accident)(Brief article)
Douglas Crawford owns a farm in Ashford, Alabama. Crawford also drives a truck for Saia Motor Freight Lines, an occupation that put him into the middle of a serious accident scene last summer.
Crawford was driving his rig southbound on Interstate 85 in Crawford, Georgia, when he witnessed a collision between two 18-wheelers: an out-of-control Roadway truck crossed the median and crashed head-on into a Sexton Farms Trucking tractor-trailer driven by Herman Langford of Leesburg, Georgia. Both trucks burst into flames.
Parking his own truck, Crawford grabbed his fire extinguisher and ran to the scene. He could see that ...
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