Jeff Johnson of Winston-Salem was driving on U.S. 52 North toward Pilot Mountain Thursday with his two sons when he saw a burning car in the southbound lanes of the highway.
A crash involving eight vehicles had just happened at 2:43 p.m. on U.S. 52 South near Martin Luther King Drive, Winston-Salem police said.
Johnson, 46, a triage nurse at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, said he saw the crash's immediate aftermath and quickly pulled over. He then jumped over the highway's dividing median and ran toward the crash.
He joined three other men to pull a woman out of the burning car, which had been hit in the back by a tractor-trailer, said Johnson, who has also worked as an emergency-room nurse at Wake Forest Baptist.