A driver in an accident in Santa Paula, California, was assisted by first responders and an award-winning actor Sunday.
KABC reported that Harrison Ford helped a female driver after she drove off a highway and crashed into an embankment Sunday afternoon.
Santa Paula Police Senior Officer Matt Alonzo told the Ventura County Star that the Ford was in the area with a friend when they heard the driver's sedan roll over and off the highway and into a tree.
“He acted as a good Samaritan, just like everybody else, and tried to help before emergency services arrived,” Alonzo said.
A representative for the Santa Paula Fire Department told The Hollywood Reporter that the actor was getting on the highway after leaving the Santa Paula Airport.
Authorities said the woman was the only occupant in the car and that Ford and others helped her out of the vehicle. She had minor injuries.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of the accident.
This is the latest in a string of good deeds Ford has been reported as doing.
E! News reported that, in 2000, he was in his helicopter when he rescued two female hikers from the top of Table Mountain in Wyoming as they had altitude sickness. In 2001, he found a missing 13-year-old Boy Scout while flying a helicopter around Wyoming.
A representative for Ford did not comment to KABC on the report.
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