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Hero lorry driver 'risked his life' to save pensioner from burning car wreck
burning to death after a car crash has been hailed as a 'true hero'Robert Kirk, 48, leapt from his cab to smash the vehicle's window with his fist before bending a buckled door with 'brute force' to get to a trapped pensioner.On the morning of January 19 Mr Kirk had been driving in his HGV behind retired bus driver Bernard Hopwood, 81, when he witnessed Mr Hopwood's Ford Focus plough into the back of a tractor's trailer.READ MORE: Restaurant worker's burns prevented from worsening by colleagues using sprinklersThe tractor had pulled up with mechanical issues, at Werrington in Staffordshire, and Mr Hopwood's vehicle didn't appear to brake before the collision.Realising the driver had to be freed from a now burning vehicle, Mr Kirk ignored the risk to himself of an explosion and smashed the driver's window with his fist then bent the door back enough to pull the driver out of the car before the flames reached him.