A man screaming for help received it last week from about a dozen good Samaritans who raced to the scene of a crash and lifted an overturned van in the White Rock area of Dallas.

The crash happened around 8 p.m. Oct. 5 at the intersection of Peavy and Garland roads.

"We heard the initial screech and then a crash and then another screech and another crash, and then it just kind of kept going," said Rob Murta, who lives nearby and talked to KXAS-TV (NBC5).

Several residents also heard the crash and ran toward the sound, where they heard screaming coming from inside the van.

Murta told NBC5 that the crowd managed to lift the van by holding on to its ladder racks. In video of the incident, someone shouts, "Come on, everybody!" as the crowd pushes on the van while cries can be heard coming from inside.

The crowd groans collectively from the effort as the van slowly becomes upright. Afterward, a portion of the crowd gathers around what appears to be someone lying on the ground, but the video is unclear.

"If you could have heard the screams from everybody lifting, it was every ounce of strength that every person had in order to get that up," Murta said. "You know you see it in movies and things like that or sometimes on the news or something, but it was amazing really."

It is unclear how many people were in the van or if anyone was seriously injured, but Murta told NBC5 that the trapped man said his kids were still inside.

One witness told NBC5 that the van partially came to rest on a curb after it overturned, which may have helped the man survive.