NBC Reporter Pulls Teen From Burning Car Seconds Before Explosion
An ordinary drive home from work turned into a life-or-death rescue for veteran NBC News correspondent Tom Costello on a busy Maryland highway. According to the New York Post , Costello was traveling on the Capital…
An ordinary drive home from work turned into a life-or-death rescue for veteran NBC News correspondent Tom Costello on a busy Maryland highway.
According to the New York Post, Costello was traveling on the Capital Beltway last Tuesday when a speeding vehicle suddenly raced past him before crashing violently into a concrete barrier.
The impact sent the car flipping through the air before it burst into flames.
Debris scattered across the roadway as fire spread underneath the mangled wreckage.
Costello later recalled watching the horrifying scene unfold and immediately dialing 911.
“Somebody in here is in bad shape,” he warned dispatchers.
Believing there was little chance anyone could have survived the Crash, Costello cautiously approached the destroyed vehicle. But when he looked inside, he found a teenage driver still alive.
“I thought, ‘nobody could survive this’. And it was a teenager. He was stunned. He wasn’t speaking. He had a gaze in his eyes, he was looking out the front windshield,” Costello said.