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    Brooklyn bystanders show incredible strength to rescue driver from overturned minivan— only to find bottles of booze next to him: video

    By Isabel Keane,

    6 hours ago

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    Newly emerged video captured the incredible moment Brooklyn neighbors lifted a minivan that flipped in a wild series of crashes — just to find bottles of booze next to the rescued driver, now charged with DWI.

    Footage from the terrifying crash in Brownsville on Saturday shows around a dozen people rushing to help lift the smashed-up van that was wildly crashing and flipping over while fleeing the scene of another accident, striking a 26-year-old woman and a 3-year-old girl in a crosswalk.

    The group rushed over after the crash that “sounded like a bomb exploded,” one neighbor told ABC 7.

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    Video captured neighbors working to flip the car over and save the driver who was trapped inside. ABC 7

    Brooklyn bystanders rescue driver from overturned minivan after wild series of crashes

    “C’mon, let’s go!” one man yells as at least a dozen people stand shoulder to shoulder trying to heave the car over from its side, with others yelling, “Push, push, push!”

    Eventually, the crowd managed to push the vehicle upright and rescue the trapped driver, identified by police as Olubunmi Awoluyi, 61.

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    “The car that hit was upside down and everybody came and was trying to, you know, turn it over,” Eudus James, who owns both vehicles that were hit when the minivan overturned, told CBS.

    “[The driver] was bleeding out of his mouth. There was blood on the road. It was kinda scary watching somebody being pinned and being crushed.”

    James said there was a bottle of cognac on the pavement near the crash and another bottle of alcohol was visible inside the vehicle.

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    Another witness, Shanique Fox, told CBS a bottle of liquor fell out of the car when a firefighter opened the door.

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    Surveillance footage showed neighbors leaving their homes to try to help the driver. ABC 7
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    Witnesses saw a bottle of alcohol inside the car after they got it upright. ABC 7

    Police say Awoluyi crashed after hitting two cars in a different location, then striking a 26-year-old woman and a 3-year-old girl in a crosswalk. Both the woman and child were taken to the hospital and expected to make a full recovery.

    Awoluyi was charged with DWI, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, police said.

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