Pitt Men's Basketball Coach Dixon Saves Crash Victims

PITTSBURGH,None — University of Pittsburgh men's basketball coach Jamie Dixon helped rescue two men from a car accident near the city.

Dixon was heading north on Interstate 279 before 10 p.m. Saturday when a car swerved, hit a guardrail and flipped over.

Dixon pulled over, ran to the vehicle and cut his hands helping someone get out.

"Was headed straight toward the wall and hit it head on and flipped," said Dixon. "I got cuts on my hands from pulling back the windshield. I did what anyone else in Pittsburgh would've done."

Channel 11 was the only station on the scene and captured raw video of Dixon being treated in an ambulance.

State police trooper Erik Fisher told ESPN.com that Dixon helped remove at least one of the victims, a woman who had a broken ankle.

Fisher calls Dixon "a Good Samaritan" who did "exactly what a decent person should do." He says he "was one of the very few who pulled over."

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