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Shocking video taken by witnesses show a car completely engulfed in flames after a collision on Thursday night in Torbay, Newfoundland.
One man has been arrested for impaired driving following a single-vehicle collision, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said in a news release on Friday.
Officers were alerted to a report of a vehicle that had rolled over just after 11 p.m. on Thursday. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries after being removed from the vehicle by a person who witnessed the scene while driving, police said.
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Photos and videos on social media showing the vehicle on fire are circulating online. In a series of images, one person on X showed the vehicle on its side as the fire burned.
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In another post on X, the same person shared a video showing firefighters working to extinguish the flames. As the camera panned to show the rest of the scene, it revealed that the crash occurred directly in front of the Torbay Volunteer Fire Department.
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The vehicle collided with a flagpole in front of a public health clinic and the fire department, a woman who was at the scene said in a post on social media.
The woman said she was driving with another passenger in her car late Thursday night when they saw “headlights flying towards us, in our lane,” she wrote on Facebook.
“I slammed the breaks! He hit the sidewalk and then the grass. He hit the curb to the parking lot then a flag pole and the car flipped and flipped.”
It was the collision that caused the vehicle to catch fire, the woman told CBC News on Friday.
In one video she shared on Facebook, the vehicle can be seen still on fire as smoke billows out, with a fire truck parked in the background.
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After dialing 911, the woman said she approached the vehicle.
“I started kicking the windshield in with my crocs and pulled it out with my hands,” she said, adding that she yelled at the person inside to get out of the vehicle.
“I was able to pull with him trying to crawl, and get him out.”
In another video shared by the woman, a man can be seen getting handcuffed by a police officer at the scene.
The woman said she was in shock and that she “almost never made it home” to her family and children.
“Within seconds he drifted onto the grass and missed us. Within seconds he was out of that car before it blew up,” she wrote.
The vehicle was later removed from the scene. A photo from police showed the damage that was done to the vehicle by the fire.
A 30-year-old man from Port Blandford was charged with impaired driving, refusal, assaulting a police officer, uttering threats to cause harm, and uttering threats to damage property, police said.
The man was held in custody to appear in Provincial Court.
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