By reporter Steven Smalley
There was a strange one-car wreck tonight off of Thorndyke Avenue and West Blaine Street. About 8:30p.m. multiple firetrucks were on the scene for a ?heavy rescue? of a burning BMW 4-door sedan. Tire tracks could be seen in the adjacent park about 300 feet through the grass leading to a tree where the car crashed, burst into flames, and rolled into a gully.
Magnolia Voice was on the scene and spoke with an eyewitness whose wife helped the burning driver from the car. She did not want to speak on the record. But her husband did.
?I was walking my dog and I heard a car speeding-going very fast,? explains ?Rick,? who lives next to the accident scene with his wife. ?This car had entered the park (and drove) around the log boom and was going at a high-rate of speed. It hit the tree and there was a BOOM. It? spun around and went into flames. (The driver) was in the fire and screaming.?
Rick continues his story. ?My wife convinced him to come out of the car and into the park. His jacket was on fire. She ripped that off him and got him to lay down. The police I talked to said he smelled no alcohol.?
The man was described as 25-30 years of age. The driver was alone in the car.
?His face was cut up and my wife said his heart was beating like a hummingbird,? he said. ?She was really worried he was just going to die right there.?
Then Rick described the words the driver repeated several times, ?He said, ?I love her. I love her.??
A reader reports the driver was taken to Harborview Medical Center.