{"id":378573,"date":"2026-07-19T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:42:13","slug":"texas-police-officer-pulls-driver-from-flaming-vehicle-during-routine-traffic-stop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378573\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas police officer pulls driver from flaming vehicle during routine traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

A Southlake police officer rescued a driver trapped inside a burning Nissan during a routine speeding stop on Highway 114.<\/p>\n

The officer pulled the driver out just before the car was engulfed in flames, while the speeding driver was given a warning.<\/p>\n

The cause of the sudden vehicle fire remains unknown, though the rescued driver was evaluated and reunited with family.<\/p>\n

SOUTHLAKE, Texas – As a Mercedes vehicle was getting pulled over for speeding on Highway 114, a Nissan, up in smoke, passes by and stopped just ahead.<\/p>\n

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Local perspective<\/p>\n

Corporal Joshua Swisher of the Southlake Police Department switched from a mundane Sunday evening call to one that saved a man’s life within seconds,\u00a0flames coming from under the vehicle and the inside filled with smoke.<\/p>\n

\"<div>Corporal<\/p>\n

“I could not even see inside the vehicle. The only thing I saw was hands, and it was the driver trying to get his door open from the inside,” said Swisher.<\/p>\n

The driver was in shock as the door wasn’t open.<\/p>\n

“He grabbed onto me. We got him out of the car, shortly before the interior went up in flames,” said Swisher.<\/p>\n

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No one else was in the burning Nissan, as it was quickly engulfed by flames.<\/p>\n

“I think I speak for every Southlake officer when i say that if anybody had been put in that same situation, same circumstances, any other officer would have done the same thing,” said Swisher.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper<\/p>\n

As for the Mercedes that was initially pulled over, the driver actually had just left a nearby hospital after visiting a family member. So Southlake police gave him a ride back to the hospital.<\/p>\n

“It was going to be a ticket, but luckily for them, it was a warning because I had a lot of other stuff going on. They got off with a warning,” said the officer.<\/p>\n

The driver was reunited with family and checked out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What’s next<\/p>\n

Corporal Swisher only had some burnt hair on his arm, but he continued his overnight shift that day.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

Information in this article was provided by FOX 4’s Peyton Yager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Southlake police officer rescued a driver trapped inside a burning Nissan during a routine speeding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133854,8859,2455,133853,27,29,28,46202],"class_list":["post-378573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-corporal-joshua-swisher","tag-nissan","tag-police-officer","tag-southlake-police-department","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-vehicle-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}