Actor Luke Wilson is being hailed for his heroics in a moment of terror after he was involved in a fatal crash with a Ferrari in Los Angeles Tuesday night.
As soon as the Ferrari came to a stop, Wilson sprung into action to save an unidentified 50-year-old woman who was trapped in her SUV, which had flipped during the crash.
Bystander Sean Heirigs told PEOPLE mag he helped Wilson, 46, pull the woman from the car, as her leg was pinned in the twisted vehicle.
“It was stuck between the steering wheel and the dashboard or something,” he said. “At this time, Luke Wilson had jumped out and come up to the woman’s window. She was crying for help, she obviously didn’t know what was going on, she was very distraught.”
“At one point, [Wilson] was like, ‘Let’s get her out of here, it smells like smoke,’” says Heirigs. “You don’t know if it’s going to blow up or not. So, I reached in through a window to calm her down. Luke went around the back, to the trunk of the car. We pried it open, she was able to unbuckle herself, and Luke started to pull her out from the back. We then both carried her to the curb.”
Heirigs said the actor “was definitely taking control” of the situation.
“He was calm. He was definitely a hero, [a] super nice guy,” he said. “When it was all done, we hugged each other.”