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Fast-acting citizens come to rescue of driver trapped in blazing car BY TORI STAFFORD tstafford@metroland.com
Not all weekday evenings are your run-of-themill routine, and the night of Monday, June 5 was anything but for Rick Marklew. Just after 10 p.m., Marklew was at his home just west of Odessa, relaxing after a day of work and watching some television with his brother, Shaune. The pair heard a car whizzing by, but assumed it was a police vehicle, Marklew said, as their location on Highway 2 often sees emergency vehicle traffic. They’d just finished commenting on how they’d not seen any flashing lights or heard any sirens when they were startled by a “loud pop,” said Marklew. The lights in the house flickered and the brothers quickly pieced together that something must have gone wrong. Walking out into the dark, drizzly night, Marklew said he first looked west, where he saw nothing A Hydro One worker inspects the sole vehicle in a collision that knocked out power to the but darkness. Looking to area just west of Odessa on Monday, June 5. The passenger of the vehicle escaped while the east, he saw a car apcitizens had to break the driver's side window in order to pull the driver from the car. As proaching, its high beams on. of press time, the condition of the victims had not been released. “It thought, ‘OK, they’re
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coming this way, so there’s nothing over there … it must be to the west,’” said Marklew, who works for Door Doctor in the Kingston area. The two men dashed back into the house to grab some flashlights and returned just in time to see the westbound vehicle continuing down Highway 2, having just passed their location. they watched it continue on, they saw it pass a vehicle that had just become ablaze. Each brother jumped into their respective vehicle and drove toward the scene, less than 200 metres from Marklew’s front door. With his brother on the phone trying to relay information to a 911 dispatcher, Marklew said he ran across the highway toward the burning vehicle, a Dodge Challenger. It was clear to Marklew that the vehicle had struck a utility pole, hit the roadside ditch and flipped more than once. At some point, the car must have been airborne, Marklew said, because there were tree limbs and branches scattered in the area.
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