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Actor Danny Trejo played a real-life hero when he helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car after a collision at a junction in Los Angeles.
Authorities said two cars crashed in the Sylmar neighbourhood, and video aired by KABC-TV shows Trejo at the crash scene.
The 75-year-old actor said he crawled into the wrecked vehicle from one side but could not unbuckle the child’s car seat from that angle, and another bystander, a young woman, was able to undo the buckle.
Actor Danny Trejo helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car after a collision at a Los Angeles intersection.
— ABC News (@ABC) August 8, 2019
"Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else," he said. "And that's the way I live." https://t.co/0w1zmA4dmo pic.twitter.com/qZD78bLaOc
Together they pulled the baby safely from the wreckage.
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Los Angeles Fire Department said three people were taken to hospital but there were no life-threatening injuries.
Trejo, an LA native, is best known for playing the titular character Machete from the Robert Rodriguez series. – AP
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