Passerby helps rescue couple, baby from overturned car in Crystal Lake

Rester Dogboe was on was on his way to pick his two sons up from school Friday afternoon when he saw a car turned over in the ditch.As he passed by on Swanson Road, the Crystal Lake dad realized the car was smoking and other cars were not stopping. “So I turned around and went back” as another car stopped too.

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Inside the overturned car, he could see it was “filled with airbags,” Dogboe said.He grabbed a tire iron from his car, and a large rock from the side of the road too.“I knew the glass had to be down” if there was chance of pulling those inside the car out. With smoke coming from the vehicle, he was also worried it would ignite.

Dogboe was able to break what he thinks was the driver’s side window, but he wasn’t able to break the tempered glass on the other side of the car.The other driver who stopped announced he was a doctor, and suggested those inside the car wait for the ambulance to arrive.“Her legs were broken,” Dogboe said, and there was blood on her, a man in the car and a l