Hollywood heroes are falling all around us but at least we can take comfort in the fact that Harrison Ford is one of the good guys.
The actor came to the rescue of a woman whose car went off the road in California. Eyewitnesses told TMZ that Ford was driving behind her when she lost control and crashed into an embankment off the freeway.
The actor, 75, was driving down the freeway near Santa Barbara when the car in front of him lost control and swerved off the road, reports TMZ. The actor immediately pulled over to the side of the road and ran down into the embankment to help the female driver.
The Star Wars actor, along with a few other fellow good Samaritans, pulled the woman from the car and waited with her until paramedics arrived.
Santa Paula Police Department senior officer Matt Alonzo told the local newspaper that the unidentified woman was driving down Highway 126 when her sedan swerved off the road and crashed into a tree.
She’s also got a pretty great story to dine out on for the rest of her life.
This isn’t the first time the Oscar nominee has offered aid during an emergency. He helped direct traffic during a pileup in a New York City tunnel in September.
Back in July 2000, Ford also rescued Sarah Hurst while piloting his helicopter. Hurst told the reporters she was suffering from dehydration and altitude sickness during a hike off Table Mountain in Teton County, Wyoming (altitude 11,106 ft.) when the action star came to her aid.
Ford has found himself in a few scary situations, too. His single-engine airplane narrowly avoided colliding with an American Airlines jetliner in California in February. The incident came nearly two years after his World War II-era plane crashed on a Los Angeles golf course due to engine trouble.
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Sources: OpposingViews, Daily Mail, TMZ, USA Today