A person was seriously injured in a crash early Sunday in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
The Falmouth Fire Department says the driver was the only person involved in the wreck around 3:30 a.m. on Route 151 in the area of Ashumet Road.
The victim, whose name was not released, suffered multi-trauma injuries, according to the fire department, and was taken to Saint Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, a Level II trauma center.
Witness David Panora lives nearby where the crash happened and says he sprinted out to help after he saw the car was on fire.
“I woke up, I heard a big bang and a car horn laying on like steady and I came running out, my roommate was like, ‘What are you gonna go save a life?’ We were joking, because I live at this house over here. I ran outside, saw a car that was on fire, the backseat was on fire, and I saw somebody in the car and the door was already open thank god so I picked him up and then I have a bad shoulder so i dropped him and dragged him 15-20 yards away from the car…I called 911…I thought the car was going to explode,” Panora said.
Cell phone video taken by Panora shows the entire car engulfed in flames.
Video from the scene later Sunday morning shows the burned out car off the side of the road and into a line of trees, with firefighters on scene suppressing the flames. It also appears from video that one tree went through the windshield of the car.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash, or what condition the victim is in.
NBC10 Boston has reached out to Falmouth police but hasn’t heard back yet.
This developing story will be updated when we learn more
Kaitlin McKinley Becker
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