Rescuers pull drivers from truck wrecks across states

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A Nebraska state trooper, transportation workers and bystanders pulled a seriously injured driver from a burning truck after a crash on Interstate 80 near Gothenburg, then treated the driver until medical crews arrived. In separate incidents, New Mexico National Guard members helped a driver out of an overturned tractor-trailer on Interstate 40, and two Arkansas transportation employees pulled an injured driver from an overturned pickup in Little Rock. Passersby also rescued a driver after a truck overturned into a ditch in Polk City, Florida.

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