VIDEO: Two men are dead after a fiery crash on Lake Shore drive early Sunday.
A man rushed to help the men after the crash near the Oak Street curve. CBS 2’s Steven Graves spoke with that man late Sunday. Steve Compton said he has never seen injuries like the man suffered, or anything like the inferno that erupted outside his workplace.
Video shows the explosion that happened just after 3 a.m. In the dark of early morning, Compton saw the beam of light – a fireball that immediately caught his attention. “It was a smash… and I look out and it’s fire – a car scraping across the outside wall,” Compton said. “As soon as it was coming up on the wall, there were sparks, there was flames and it was exploding while in full motion.”
Police said the car struck a concrete barrier, flipped over on its side, and burst into flames.
Compton sprang into action while working the night shift at a nearby building.
“I was calling 911 with my left hand and had a fire extinguisher in the other,” he said.