It wasn't a stunt for an upcoming movie. It happened in real life on Wednesday. The actor jumped into action after witnessing two vehicles crash causing one to rollover. The overturned vehicle that was sitting on its roof still had a baby strapped into a car seat inside.
Trejo, who also starred in From Dusk Till Dawn, Heat, Con Air, Spy Kids, The Devil’s Rejects and hundreds more, happened to be in the area when two cars collided Wednesday afternoon in the area of Hubbard Street and Jackman Avenue, ABC 7 writes with Trejo telling on-site reporters that one of the cars ran a red light.
“One of the vehicles overturned onto its roof and a young child was trapped inside, strapped into a car seat. Trejo and another bystander [Monica Jackson] helped rescue the child,” explains the site.
“Trejo crawled into the overturned wreckage from one side, he recalled, but he couldn’t unbuckle the child’s car seat from that angle.”
“The other bystander, a young woman, crawled in from the other side of the overturned vehicle and was able to undo the buckle. Trejo was then able to get the baby out of the car seat and pulled safely from the wreckage.”
“While that was happening, the boy’s grandmother remained trapped in the driver’s seat. Firefighters had to use equipment to free her.”
“Trejo says while the firefighters were working to free the woman, he was trying to distract the boy from the scene.”
"The only thing that saved the little kid was his car seat," Trejo told a photographer on the scene.
The Los Angeles Fire Department told CNN affiliate KABC that three people were taken to a hospital. Their injuries were not life threatening.
Thanks to his work with special-needs children, Trejo knew how to keep the boy calm.
“He was panicked,” Trejo told reporters. “I said OK, we have to use our superpowers. So he screamed ‘superpowers’ and we started yelling ‘superpowers,” Trejo added. “I said do this, with the muscles. He said ‘muscles.'”
“We got kind of a bond. I kept facing him away from the accident.”
Trejo can next be seen, er, heard as the voice of Boots the Monkey in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Players' brand-new live-action movie inspired by Nickelodeon's beloved Dora the Explorer animated preschool series, which sees an older Dora (Isabela Moner) go on all-new adventures, in theatres Friday, August 9, 2019!
Not only is @officialDannyT (Danny Trejo) one of the nicest actors, he’s also a #hero!
— Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) August 8, 2019
He was right behind a crash in Sylmar and pulled a special needs baby out of an overturned car. He distracted the boy until grandma was OK. ♥️ —> https://t.co/tS2Za4bZVZ@ABC7 pic.twitter.com/U9iLzAkHkA
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Sources: Bloody Disgusting, CNN; Additional source: Wikipedia.
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