LOS ANGELES—Actor Danny Trejo played a real-life hero when he helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car after a collision at a Los Angeles intersection on Aug. 7.
Authorities say two cars crashed in the Sylmar neighborhood.
Trejo says he crawled into the wrecked vehicle from one side but couldn’t unbuckle the child’s car seat from that angle.
He said that with the help of another bystander, Monica Jackson, they were able to free the child. Together they pulled the baby safely from the wreckage.
“The only thing that saved the little kid was his car seat, honest to God,” Trejo told a photographer on the scene.
In a video on Twitter, the actor told KABC-TV, “Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.”
Trejo also advised motorists and parents to “pay attention.”
The Los Angeles Fire Department says three people were taken to a hospital, and there were no life-threatening injuries.
The 75-year-old Trejo, an LA native, is best known for playing the character Machete from the “Spy Kids” series.
