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Machete is a badass. Actor Danny Trejo, who played Machete on the big screen in a handful of movies, is just as much of a badass – but with a heart of gold.
Whereas the world is used to seeing Trejo in bad guy-roles, he lives his life by a very simple motto: do good things if you want good things to happen to you. So when he happened to witness a 2-vehicle crash at an intersection in Sylmar, California, he didn’t think twice about getting out of his own car and rushing to help.
Trejo tells ABC 7’s Eyewitness News that a woman in a Toyota pulled up right next to him, so he could see the woman wasn’t paying attention. He honked to warn her that she was about to run a red light but she didn’t hear him and continued on her way. She hit a Ford Explorer coming in on green, went under it and flipped it.
Inside the Explorer were a mother, her special needs boy and the grandmother. Trejo says the grandmother and the boy were trapped under the wreck, so he and another bystander, a woman, did their best to get them out safely.
After getting the grandmother out, Trejo had trouble getting the boy, because he couldn’t undo the seatbelt. So the other woman crawled into the car through the opposite side and undid the seatbelt, and Trejo was able to crawl inside as well and take the boy. It wasn’t easy, he says for the media outlet.
“He was panicked. I said OK we have to use our superpowers. So he screamed ‘superpowers!’ and we started yelling ‘superpowers!.’ I said do this, with the muscles. He said ‘muscles!’ We got kind of a bond. I kept facing him away from the accident,” Trejo recalls.
“The only thing that saved that little kid was his car seat, honest to God,” the actor continues, urging drivers to “pay attention” to the road, or an accident like this might have more serious consequences.
LAPD confirms for the media outlet that 3 people were rushed to the hospital with minor injuries after the accident. No one has been charged in connection to it yet.
Trejo tells ABC 7’s Eyewitness News that a woman in a Toyota pulled up right next to him, so he could see the woman wasn’t paying attention. He honked to warn her that she was about to run a red light but she didn’t hear him and continued on her way. She hit a Ford Explorer coming in on green, went under it and flipped it.
Inside the Explorer were a mother, her special needs boy and the grandmother. Trejo says the grandmother and the boy were trapped under the wreck, so he and another bystander, a woman, did their best to get them out safely.
After getting the grandmother out, Trejo had trouble getting the boy, because he couldn’t undo the seatbelt. So the other woman crawled into the car through the opposite side and undid the seatbelt, and Trejo was able to crawl inside as well and take the boy. It wasn’t easy, he says for the media outlet.
“He was panicked. I said OK we have to use our superpowers. So he screamed ‘superpowers!’ and we started yelling ‘superpowers!.’ I said do this, with the muscles. He said ‘muscles!’ We got kind of a bond. I kept facing him away from the accident,” Trejo recalls.
“The only thing that saved that little kid was his car seat, honest to God,” the actor continues, urging drivers to “pay attention” to the road, or an accident like this might have more serious consequences.
LAPD confirms for the media outlet that 3 people were rushed to the hospital with minor injuries after the accident. No one has been charged in connection to it yet.
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