LUKE WILSON PLAYS HERO FOR REAL
Actor Luke Wilson played a real-life hero in the aftermath of a Los Angeles car crash that also involved golfer Bill Haas, a witness said Wednesday.
Wilson, whose own car was clipped in the three-vehicle accident, pulled a 50-year-old woman from the smoking wreckage of her BMW.
“He was the hero; he led the charge,” said 46-year-old tattoo artist Sean Heirigs, who was right behind the accident.
Heirigs said he and his 14-yearold daughter saw the driver of a Ferrari accelerate and appear to lose control, with the back end swinging into oncoming traffic.
It hit the BMW and clipped Wilson’s car before running into a pole, he said. Heirigs told his daughter to call 911 and went to help the woman trapped in the BMW, which had flipped over onto the passenger side.
“We were able to get her leg out from being stuck and then she came out and Luke was pulling her through the back trunk area and then we both carried her to the curb. And this was all going on while the Ferrari’s wheels are still spinning and blowing rubber and smoke everywhere...”
Police were investigating whether speed was a factor in the crash.
The 46-year-old Wilson is a Dallas-native and star of films including “Legally Blonde,” “Idiocracy” and “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
The woman from the BMW is hospitalized with serious injuries.
Haas, who had been in the passenger seat of the Ferrari, had pain and swelling in his legs.