A NANDO'S chef heroically pulled a woman from her car after it overturned on Corporation Road in Chelmsford on Monday (September 15).
Adam Sainsbury, 21, was walking back to his house in the same street when he heard a loud bang and saw a Vauxhall Astra car had flipped onto its roof.
"I was just walking back from the shops when I heard the noise," he said. "I saw that the car overturned and there was a woman inside it. She was panicking.
"She was screaming and struggling to get her seatbelt off. I tried to calm her down and I told her to see if she could undo the seatbelt or try to wriggle out of it.
"Eventually she wriggled out of it and I helped to pull her out of the car. I called for a passing driver to phone the ambulance and I went into my house to get her a towel and just tried to calm her down.
"I don't think she was seriously injured, apart from the shock, and she had cut her knee."
The woman's car flipped over after it hit a blue Peugeot parked at the side of the road.
An ambulance, as well as a fire engine and police attended the incident, which attracted a crowd of bystanders who were amazed to see the overturned vehicle in the middle of the street.
PC John Holmes said: "It appears that the lady was driving from Broomfield to Kings Road and for an unknown reason collided with a parked car.
"Witnesses said there was not excessive speed. It is quite unusual for a car to overturn in these circumstances – it appears the cars met in a wheel to wheel collision."
The woman who was pulled from the car, who is in her fifties and from Halstead, was taken to Broomfield Hospital as a precaution. She was reported to police for driving offences.
