Motorcyclist reunites with quick-thinking strangers who saved his life
Motorcyclist Tyler Wiebe only had seconds to live when another driver caused a huge crash and pinned him under a car.
A group of quick-thinking car salesmen working nearby ran over and lifted it off him.
Tyler Wiebe owes his life to a group of quick-thinking car salesmen who freed him from a car he became pinned under in a horror crash. A Current Affair
On A Current Affair, Tyler met the heroes who gave him a second lease on life.
“Finally!” Tyler said walking up to the men from Auto Request Kedron in Brisbane’s north.
“Hey Tyler! How are you mate?” employee Rob asked while giving him a handshake.
“A bit better than last time we’ve seen you mate,” Tyler joked.
“You might not recognise me not on the ground.”
He’s a walking miracle: out of hospital, alive and well, and it’s all thanks to these guys.
Incredible footage shows the moment the everyday Aussie car salesmen lift a 1500kg car off Tyler, who was pinned underneath.
“It’s something that you would do for anyone,” employee Corbin told A Current Affair.
Tyler was on his motorbike riding to work when a car in the other lane mounted the curb.
Tyler is a walking miracle: out of hospital, alive and well. A Current Affair
“All of a sudden saw another car coming through traffic, right? Through traffic, like a fish trying to swim upstream and it hit the car in front of me,” Tyler told A Current Affair.
“So I got toppled over and was on the ground, and I just feel a car roll on top of me.”
“I was in the office at the time so I heard the bang, came running to the doors,” employee Mick said.
“I realised there was someone trapped under the car,” car salesman Rob added.
“Saw Rob running and he was just whistling out saying, ‘Hey, boys, hurry up’. I remember seeing him, just like two legs, they weren’t moving at that time,” Corbin recounted.
“We tried to lift it off, we couldn’t and then second attempt, we had a couple of other good Samaritans come and help us,” another employee, Brian, explained.
Tyler was running out of time, fading fast.
“Couldn’t breathe and it turns out my heart couldn’t beat either so it was pushing down with such pressure and that’s why you see my eyes, the blood was coming out of my mouth, my nose, my forehead,” Tyler revealed.
“I remember the first go where it didn’t quite work and it came back down on top of me. I’m not going to complain because hey, they’re giving it an effort, right?”
“We just knew we had to get the car off. We just sort of grabbed the spot and just lifted with all our might,” Rob said.
“Honestly, I don’t think I had more than two more seconds,” Tyler explained.
The Auto Request Kedron boys freed the Canadian expat just in time.
The Auto Request Kedron boys freed the Canadian expat just in time. A Current Affair
“It was all going black. You can only hold your breath for so long and I think your heart can only not beat for so long, and it would have been it,” Tyler told A Current Affair.
“I said later, why didn’t we just tip the car over? Instead of trying to lift it up? You know, why didn’t we just roll it over?” Brian recalled to Tyler at the reunion.
“And someone said, ‘What about the two women in the car?’
“I’m like ‘What women?’”
Incredibly, it wasn’t just the weight of the car crushing Tyler, there were two women sitting inside when it was lifted off.
They were okay, but couldn’t get out.
“I could finally get a breath in but because all my ribs were broken, my sternum was broken, I couldn’t get a deep breath in,” Tyler said.
The driver of the other car which caused the crash was reportedly passed out behind the wheel.
“The statement was she was feeling nauseous and fainted beforehand. So a 20-year-old woman,” Tyler told the car salesmen.
Alive but very broken, Tyler had to make a phone call as soon as he was freed.
“I remember all he was saying is, ‘I need to call my wife’,” Corbin said.
“So hey, my phone’s in my right pocket, here’s my fingerprint, call her,” Tyler recounted the instructions to make the call.
Heidi was working four hours away in Bundaberg and jumped on a plane, while their two daughters rushed from school to hospital, and Tyler’s sisters flew over from Canada.
“He got into the ambulance and then we were just wondering if he was actually going to make it,” Corbin said.
Tyler's wife Heidi (pictured) was working four hours away in Bundaberg and jumped on a plane, while their two daughters rushed from school to hospital, and Tyler’s sisters flew over from Canada. A Current Affair
“I really believed I was going to die because of the collapsed lung in the ambulance where I was very much fading away and I remember them calling like hey, stay wih me, stay with me, and it was hard to stay with them,” Tyler recalled.
“And then in the operating room on the operating table I thought it was it.”
The car salesmen couldn’t believe it when they saw Tyler on the news thanking them from his hospital bed.
“I get more time with my daughters, I get more time with my family and a second lease on life so just thank you, thank you,” Tyler said.
“It’s a miracle, absolute miracle,” car salesman Jake told A Current Affair.
They all couldn’t wait to reunite again, under better circumstances.
“Got just a little token of appreciation, some t-shirts here for you guys. You guys are legends, but now you’re certified legends,” Tyler said handing out the “certified legends” shirts with a picture of a man, wearing an Australian flag shirt, while lifting up a car.
“I love it!” the car salesmen cheered.
“And, I heard you had your citizenship in January,” A Current Affair said to Tyler.
“Yes, yes!” he replied.
“Proud to be an Aussie, right?” A Current Affair asked.
“One hundred per cent. I love being Australian,” Tyler replied.
“Are you going to be getting back on that motorbike?” A Current Affair asked.
“Never again, unfortunately,” Tyler said.
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