Afternoon edition: The moment good Samaritans yank lifeless man from burning wreckage

Email I was hit by a car going 170km/h and survived. No doubt about it, I should probably be dead. But after I was left unconscious, burning, trapped and helpless, something incredible happened, writes Advertiser journalist Ben Hyde.

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