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Photo by Jason Kryk / Windsor Star

Miraculously, everyone survived the crash and escaped with minor injuries. The driver of the pickup truck was not wearing a seatbelt and flew out of the vehicle.

One man is charged with drunk driving. Police haven’t yet said whether the driver of the pickup truck was the man charged or whether other charges are expected.

When the crash happened, Mansour said his instincts kicked in. He rushed outside and toward the smoking wreck.

“What used to be an F-150 was crushed so badly I was scared to look inside,” he said.

Mansour is a heavyweight boxing champion who said he learned tips on dealing with emergencies from his father, a former firefighter.

“I tried to figure out the whole picture first, then attack where you can help,” he said.

Across the street was a white minivan smashed along its side, airbags inflated.

“I ran right to it to see if there were any young kids or anybody hurt in there,” he said. There was a couple in the minivan, who gave him the thumbs up that they were all right.

Next he ran to the black Chevy crumpled in front, where it appears from the surveillance video the Ford struck nearly head-on. The driver’s door was too crushed to open, so Mansour pulled open the passenger side and pulled back the airbag to ask an elderly woman whether she was OK.

“She was shivering, screaming, scared,” he said. The woman told him she was all right, but her husband was stuck in the car and his hand was hurt.

Photo by Jason Kryk / Windsor Star

As he raced between each vehicle checking how each person was doing, Mansour directed his staff to block the road and call 911.