Crime & Safety
Car Crash Victim Rescued at Gas Station Speaks
"I tried to get out but I couldn't," said John Catana, 63, of Lawrenceville regarding the Thursday morning crash into a Chevron gas pump on Clairmont Road.
John Catana was in shock when he was saved from his flaming car after it smashed into a gas pump near the intersection of Clairmont and Briarcliff roads Thursday morning.
The 63-year-old Lawrenceville resident told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he lost control of his steering and breaking after he was struck at the intersection on his way to work at the Atlanta VA Medical Center at about 6:45am.
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Catana's car went into a gas station, and the back of the vehicle slammed into two gas pumps and erupted into flames .
“I tried to get out but I couldn’t," he said. “My windshield was shattered, and that seemed to be the only way out.”
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Catana said several people tried to help him. One man reached in through the windshield to pull him out.
Everything happened so fast, it didn’t register what happened until later, he said. “I was in shock.”
Catana was saved by Tucker resident Edgar Evans. North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch yesterday.
Read the rest of the AJC story here.
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