Texas police officer pulls driver from flaming vehicle during routine traffic stop

As a Mercedes vehicle was getting pulled over for speeding on Highway 114, a Nissan, up in smoke, passes by and stopped just ahead.Corporal Joshua Swisher of the Southlake Police Department switched from a mundane Sunday evening call to one that saved a man's life within seconds, flames coming from under the vehicle and the inside filled with smoke."I could not even see inside the vehicle. The only thing I saw was hands, and it was the driver trying to get his door open from the inside," said Swisher.The driver was in shock as the door wasn't open."He grabbed onto me. We got him out of the car, shortly before the interior went up in flames," said Swisher.No one else was in the burning Nissan, as it was quickly engulfed by flames."I think I speak for every Southlake officer when i say that if anybody had been put in that same situation, same circumstances, any other officer would have done the same thing," said Swisher.As for the Mercedes that was initially pulled over, the driver actua
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