Saint Paul,MN : Bystanders lift pickup off man pinned after St. Paul crash on August, Monday 28th 2017

About 15 bystanders worked together Monday morning to free a man pinned by a pickup truck that crashed just off a St. Paul street, police said.

The man, who was eating lunch by an apartment building, was taken to Regions Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman.

People got out of their vehicles to run over and lift the truck onto its side on Maryland Avenue near Interstate 35E.

“I think it’s amazing that people did the seemingly impossible to help somebody else out,” Linders said. “They saw somebody in need, they jumped up and even though he was pinned underneath an incredibly heavy vehicle, they worked together to overcome those odds and possibly save his life.”

Just after 11:15 a.m., a 68-year-old pickup truck driver was heading west on Maryland Avenue.

“All of a sudden people were slamming on their brakes (as they approached the stop light) and I didn’t slam on mine fast enough,” said the driver, David Vetter Sr. “I knew I was going to hit the car in front of me if I would have kept going.”

Vetter swerved and went over the curb, thinking he would be able to stop his truck quickly, but said he was unable to in the wet grass. The St. Paul man, who said he was a U.S. Marine and a Vietnam War veteran, said he was horrified by what happened.


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Bystanders lift pickup off man pinned after St. Paul crash