Driver 'lucky to be alive' after car skids off highway and catches fire

Anthony Piovesan
Updated March 16 2017 - 12:18pm, first published 12:00pm
HEROIC ACT: Truck driver Daniel Nicolle put a stranger's safety ahead of his own when he searched for survivors inside a burning car. Picture: Kate Healy
HEROIC ACT: Truck driver Daniel Nicolle put a stranger's safety ahead of his own when he searched for survivors inside a burning car. Picture: Kate Healy

A truck driver’s routine trip from Horsham to Ballarat turned out to be a mission to save a person’s life when he spotted a car in flames off the Western Highway at Stawell.

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