"We got him off to a safe distance," said Dan Faraci, who was coming home from work when he came across the accident at Chicago and Milwaukee avenues around 6 a.m.



"I saw him coming down Milwaukee Avenue, I saw him hit the light pole and it flipped, like, four times," Faraci told reporters at the scene.



"The passenger got out of the cab and the cab caught fire," he said. "So a couple of us helped the cabbie out. . .The fire had just started when we got him out."