I didn't know it at the time but the driver of the huge truck had suffered a massive heart attack at the wheel and died instantly.
The truck was travelling at about sixty MPH going south and I was doing about sixty going north.
If the truck driver had died two seconds later the truck would have veered across the road and smashed headlong into my car. Instead it demolished the car in front of me. I stood on my brake pedal and managed to stop just in time, inches behind it. The truck and the car were both on fire.
I ran to the wrecked car. There was only the female driver inside. She was unconscious but still alive. She was wearing her seatbelt and her airbag had deployed, together they had saved her life.
I freed her from her seat belt, dragged her out of her seat and carried her as far away from the blazing wreckage as I could. I managed to get her onto the grass about thirty yards away from the accident before her car exploded with a deafening bang.
The road was blocked in both directions and traffic was at a standstill. One of the other drivers had already called the emergency services and two others were a doctor and a nurse who immediately took over the care of the unconscious woman.
I sat on the grass and looked at her. She was petite with a very shapely figure, maybe a little older than me but very pretty, despite her nosebleed which had been caused when the airbag had smacked her in the face.
My own car was severely damaged in the explosion but the insurance would take care of that and I was still able to retrieve the footage from the dash cam. I don't know how they managed it but a TV news camera crew arrived on the scene before the police, ambulances and fire fighters.
The dash cam footage of me carrying the woman from blazing wreck was shown continuously on every TV news channel and I was heralded as a hero.
About a week later the woman, her name was Mary, gave me a call to say that she'd recovered from her terrifying ordeal and to invite me out to dinner in a posh restaurant to thank me for saving her life. I was happy to accept.
I was single at the time because, about a month earlier, I had arrived home from work early to find my naked girlfriend in our bed with the naked Avon lady's strap on dildo deep inside her butt hole, which was doubly annoying because she had always refused to allow my cock in there.
Mary picked me up from my apartment in a hired chauffer driven limo. She looked like a million dollars. Her age had been mentioned in one of the news reports so I knew she was a good dozen years older than me but if I'd told anyone we had been in the same class at school they would have believed me. A cascade of golden curls framed her beautiful face with its big blue eyes, cute button nose and rosebud lips.