Good Samaritan’s car destroyed because she sheltered crash victims. Complaint of neck injuries resulted in firefighters popping the top.

(NOTE: One of our regular readers says this story reminds him of the humorous Episode 5 of Freeway Patrol posted to YouTube in 2010. I had forgotten about it. I’ve added it to the bottom of this post.)

The picture above is a view we’ve all seen many times. How about if I told you firefighters took the top off this car despite the fact that the woman driving it, Janice Dunlop, had completely avoided the wreck in front of her? Almost sounds like a fire department burning the wrong house down during training, but it isn’t.

There was not a scratch on Dunlop’s Vauxhall Vectra except the ones inflicted by firefighters. Janice Dunlop lost her car by being a good Samaritan. She gave shelter to two victims of the collision that occurred in front of her on A27 near Arundel in West Sussex in the South of England.

What happened, according to BBC News, is that the two people told the arriving paramedics from South East Coast Ambulance Service that they had neck pains. The crew, working with firefighters, determined the only safe way to get them out of Dunlop’s car was to pop the top. Now Dunlop has lost her family’s only car and it’s unclear if insurance will cover the damage. Here’s more: