As a four-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man title, Brian Shaw spends his life training for epic displays of brute force. Last week, a set of extraordinary circumstances led to Shaw using his enormous strength to play real-life superhero and help to save a man who had been involved in a car accident.

In an IGTV post, Shaw recalls how he and his wife Keri were headed out on a much-needed date night following months of quarantine when they happened upon a wreck. “Immediately both my wife and I got out of the truck and approached the accident, and it was bad,” he said. “A high-speed, head-on collision where you couldn’t even tell what kind of cars both drivers were driving.”

One of the drivers was alert and responsive, but he was trapped in the vehicle. “He asked me to get him out, and my first response was ‘I’m gonna rip the door off this guy’s car and get him out of there,'” Shaw said. “I could see that he was bleeding and jammed in there, and I wanted to do everything that I could. So I grabbed the door and started bending it in half, was able to break the window and pull the door in half, and then the woman who was on the phone with 911, because there was nobody there as far as a first responder at that point, told me that they recommended I stop just in case he had some type of an injury.”

“So I just bent the door in half, pulled the airbag up so this guy could breathe, and was talking to him,” he continued. “He actually asked me to call his fiancé and let her know what had happened to him. It was a tough spot to be in overall, the whole situation was something that you don’t want to encounter in life, and it was tough.”

Bending a car door is the kind of feat that falls well within Shaw’s wheelhouse — his recent YouTube videos have seen him deadlifting a car and hauling a truck up his driveway — but far from bragging, he went on to explain that he had another reason for telling the story.

“I am just sharing it because there are times in life when you get confronted with a situation or you’re put in a situation where you have choices, and you have ways that you can react,” he said. “It would have been simple and easy to throw the truck in reverse, turn around, and forget that we had come upon that accident, but that wasn’t the right thing to do. The right thing to do was to get out and see if my strength and power, and what my wife was able to do, if we could help. And there were a lot of good people who hopped out of their cars who didn’t know the drivers of those two cars at all, but they just wanted to make a difference.”

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