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TORONTO – The quick action of a Toronto man may have saved the life of his elderly stepfather when they were forced into a perilous situation in the middle of a serious car accident.

At approximately 12:14 p.m. on Friday, a small car travelling eastbound on King Street near Parliament Street did a U-turn and collided with another car.

“I was coming eastbound on King Street. Just driving along, doing the speed limit, doing my deliveries. Then he pulled out right in front of me,” Mitch Servin who was driving one of the cars involved, said.

“I didn’t have a chance. I hit the brakes. I hit him on the driver side door. He bounced a little, then kept going into the plate-glass window. The tires were still spinning.”

Police and paramedics arrived quickly and freed a man who was trapped inside the car. He was taken to St. Mike’s hospital with serious injuries.

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Adam Graham, a Toronto man, was walking along King Street with his soft-spoken stepfather when he heard the sound of the crash just metres away.

“It’s kind of surreal. We were just minding our own business walking down the street. And then you hear a crash and a bang. You turn around,” Graham said.

“And my father walks with a walker, so I just immediately turned to him and he kind of stumbled over and then the repercussions of the accident, the car spun around and started coming towards the window.”

“And we were in front of that window, so we just kind of jumped out of the way to get to safety.”

Leaning on his walker, Jerry Adamson, Graham’s stepfather surveyed the damage done by the collision shortly after the accident.

Speaking to Global News just metres away from the broken window of the damaged store, Adamson said that he went into shock during the crash.

“It’s frightening. You know I think I went into shock. It’s amazing. My son pulled me out of this accident,” Adamson said.

“You owe me one,” Adamson said his stepson told him following the crash.

“I owe him a few… quite a few.” Graham told Global News.