Patriots’ Vince Wilfork Pulls Woman From Flipped Jeep with One Hand

Vince Wilfork had quite a day on January 18. First his team won the AFC Championship, securing their place in the Super Bowl. Then he rescued a woman from a car crash (single-handedly, you might say).

Police who responded to a call about a rolled vehicle arrived at the scene surprised to see New England Patriots’ number 75 standing next to a flipped Jeep Wrangler. He’d been talking to the woman inside, keeping her calm.

I asked her was she okay, can she move, can she grab my hand, and kind of talked her through getting up and I actually pulled her out of the window.

The police statement fills in a detail he left out: while an officer held the door open, he pulled the woman out with just one hand. The guy is a Defensive Tackle, 6-foot-2 and 325 pounds. That’s some serious strength.

Still, Wilfork doesn’t think he’s done anything especially heroic. “It wasn’t a big deal,” he said. He just saw “somebody that needed help and helped them.”

It did make him think about what really matters in life.

You kind of reflect on life a little bit. Here I am – won the most important game of our season. Flashed right in front of your eyes, your life, somebody that’s in danger. I didn’t think about anything that was going on in my life at the time. The only thing I thought about was seeing there was somebody in there and getting them to safety. When I did and we drove off, my wife and I kind of talked in the car and just said, things are a lot more precious in life other than games or anything you accomplish in life.

That he would lend a helping hand like this didn’t surprise anyone who knows Vince Wilfork.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick said, “He’s accomplished obviously a lot in his life, but on the personal side he’s got a lot of character and integrity. …The time and the interest and the compassion he has for other fellow human beings, no, that doesn’t surprise, because that’s just the kind of person he is.”

An officer who worked at the game and responded to the crash the same night said, “Everyone will tell you that he is one of those stand-up sort of guys. Him being able to just reach in and pull her out of there with one hand is classic Wilfork. I’ve had a number of rollovers – sometimes you need to kick in the windshield to get people out. He just reached in and got her right out and was on his way.”

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