--- title: Of Course Harrison Ford Is a Casual Roadside Hero description: Leave it to the 'Star Wars' icon to help out at the scene of a car accident, proving Ford has plenty of real-life moments of heroics. canonical: https://time.com/5031922/harrison-ford-car-accident/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-20T18:40:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:53.877Z og:title: Harrison Ford Went Into Action Hero Mode to Rescue a Woman After a Highway Crash og:description: Harrison Ford is always having a Harrison Ford moment og:url: https://time.com/5031922/harrison-ford-car-accident/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt324ea63a448df421/6988e683fb4eacf934894a17/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "The Expendables 3" Premiere - The 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harrison Ford Went Into Action Hero Mode to Rescue a Woman After a Highway Crash twitter:description: Harrison Ford is always having a Harrison Ford moment twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt324ea63a448df421/6988e683fb4eacf934894a17/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Harrison Ford Went Into Action Hero Mode to Rescue a Woman After a Highway Crash > Sponsored content. 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Vittorio Zunino Celotto—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 20, 2017 6:40 PM UTC Leave it to HarrisonFord to be the hero we all need. Over the weekend, the [_Star Wars_](http://time.com/4423585/harrison-ford-star-wars-guilty-charged/), [_Indiana Jones_](http://time.com/4869807/harrison-ford-reboot-franchises-comic-con-san-diego/) and [_Blade Runner_](http://time.com/4962769/review-blade-runner-2049-gosling/) actor showed off his legendary action-star bona fides when he assisted at the scene of a car accident and helped rescue a woman from her rolled car, the [Ventura _County Star_ reports.](http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/santa-paula/2017/11/19/santa-paula-rollover-temporarily-shuts-onramp/879229001/) “He acted as a good Samaritan, just like everybody else, and tried to help before emergency services arrived,” Senior Officer Matt Alonzo of the Santa Paula Police Department said of Ford’s activity. Ford and others in the area were able to help the female driver out of the car, which had rolled down an embankment on the side of the southern California highway. Photos of the scene show him and a few others assisting in the rescue effort on Route 126\. She escaped with minor injuries. And Ford, for his part, left the scene being lauded by the Internet and his legion of fans as a true hero in dark times. > [](https://twitter.com/vcstar/status/932495698414542855) > [](https://twitter.com/RedTRaccoon/status/932579608934912001) > [](https://twitter.com/OMGkee/status/932601611649736705) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5031922/harrison-ford-car-accident/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5031922/harrison-ford-car-accident/"},"headline":"Harrison Ford Went Into Action Hero Mode to Rescue a Woman After a Highway Crash","datePublished":"2017-11-20T18:40:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:53.877Z","description":"Harrison Ford is always having a Harrison Ford moment","url":"https://time.com/5031922/harrison-ford-car-accident/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","harrison ford","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt324ea63a448df421/6988e683fb4eacf934894a17/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt324ea63a448df421/6988e683fb4eacf934894a17/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"The Expendables 3\" Premiere - The 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival","caption":"\"The Expendables 3\" Premiere - The 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival","creditText":"Vittorio Zunino Celotto—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5031922/harrison-ford-car-accident/","name":"Harrison Ford Went Into Action Hero Mode to Rescue a Woman After a Highway Crash"}}]}] ```