“I looked down and the whole bottom of my car is on fire… They grab me and they start running back,” Kerri-Mitchell said. She said just as she was stumbling out of the passenger’s side door, the off-duty officer and his wife had arrived to help. “I didn’t want to go through the driver’s side because there were so many vehicles that were going high speeds so I thought I’d get out of the passenger’s (side).” “I did not expect the car to already be on fire,” she said, adding that she then noticed woman and a man, who she later learned was an off-duty police officer, running toward her vehicle. I didn’t know should I run? Should I stay? Is it big? Everything was just like going at once and then everything went blank.”Īt one point, she said she began to feel heat underneath her feet. “(I) just remember sitting there for a second being like, ‘Oh my gosh, what’s happening?’” “My car within seconds just filled with black smoke and then I started feeling dizzy and my throat starting hurting.”Īt that point, she said, she realized something was very wrong and proceeded to put on her four-ways and pull over to the shoulder of the road. “All of a sudden I started smelling smoke,” she said. The mother of three said she initially thought they honked because she was driving too slowly and she proceeded to move over to the slow lane. “Everything was fine and I had just come off the off-ramp but then… I heard someone honk at me,” she recalled in an interview with CTV News Toronto on Monday. Video footage obtained by CTV News Toronto shows flames billowing from Kerri-Mitchell’s 2017 Hyundai Elantra moments after she escaped, with the help of an off-duty police officer and their wife. Jamie Lee Kerri-Mitchell said that she had no idea there was anything amiss in the minutes before her vehicle went up in flames on the highway near Hamilton at around 8:30 p.m. A 32-year-old Hamilton woman says she is lucky to be alive after her car randomly caught fire while she was driving on Highway 401 last weekend.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |