He had a baby of his own, so when he heard the mother in the car screaming ‘my baby, my baby’, he had to go help.
Via Daily Mail:
A hero former Marine has helped save a mother and her baby from a smoking car wreck in New York despite having lost his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.
Matias Ferreira, 26, was driving through the Queens area of New York City on Wednesday when he came across a car wreck with a mother trapped inside screaming for help.
Despite wearing prosthetic legs below both knees after he stepped on a bomb in Afghanistan in 2011, Ferreira ran to help, climbing into the back seat to free her baby from its car seat.
Meanwhile, Ferreira’s brother and father-in-law, who were riding with him at the time, rushed to get the mother out of the car.