An unresponsive driver was pulled from an SUV after a three-vehicle crash Monday afternoon in Ballston.
The crash happened shortly before 3:15 p.m. in front of the apartment building at 4000 Wilson Blvd.
ARLnow staff in a nearby office heard the squeal of tires and saw an older man having an apparent seizure in the driver’s seat of a black SUV, which had collided with a car in front of it. That car became sandwiched between the SUV and another stopped car in front of it.
Several people who witnessed the crash, including an Amazon delivery driver, jumped into action and unsuccessfully tried to open doors of the SUV. They eventually used a hand truck to smash a rear window and unlock the doors.
The man suffering the medical emergency had stopped seizing but was unresponsive when the good Samaritans pulled him out. They tended to him on the street while others called 911.
After medics arrived, the man was quickly placed onto a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance, which then drove to a local hospital. The westbound lanes of Wilson Blvd were closed by police during the emergency response. Officers took witness statements and the SUV was later towed from the scene.
The man’s condition could not be immediately learned. The SUV he was driving, a Lincoln Aviator, had a governor-issued Virginia license plate.
