Quebec hockey team helps woman after dramatic car accident

Quebec hockey team Les Bataillion de Saint-Hyacinthe jump to action to help a woman involved in a car accident.

Players from a Quebec hockey team came to the rescue of a woman after they witnessed her dramatic car crash.

Les Bataillon Saint-Hyacinthe, a team in the North American Hockey League, were heading home from a game in the Beauce region when some of the players say they saw a red car lose control as it passed them.

The vehicle flipped over and landed upside down on the side of the road.

“As soon as I could, I ran to the car,” recalls Samuel Loiselle, a newly-traded defenceman with the team. “I opened the door. It was kind of heavy because the car was upside down, so gravity was against me.”

He says as he pried the door open, he could hear the woman screaming.

“I told her, ‘Are you OK? Do you have any injuries, you think?’” he said. “She told me, ‘No, I just want to get out as fast as I can.’ I was like, ‘Alright, your head doesn’t hurt? Your neck?’ She says, ‘No, please get me out.’”

The players say they helped the woman out of her car and waited with her until paramedics arrived.

Loiselle says she did not appear to have any major injuries and thanked them profusely for helping her before being taken in by first responders.

“She was mostly in shock, but luckily, she had no injuries because of our proximity,” he said. “She was not even a minute upside down.”