An elderly mother and her daughter who might have died after the car they were travelling in flipped onto its side were saved by the altruism and quick thinking of a passing male driver.
Graham Godberry pulled his van over between Junctions Four and Five on the M40 when he saw the overturned Daihatsu on September 12th.
"It was a serious accident so I couldn't just drive past," he said, "I had to stop and help out."
As it turned out, Mr Godberry was uniquely qualified as a rescuer.
After struggling to lift the side of the car, which threatened to trap and seriously injure its elderly occupant, he realised that the lifting equipment he was carrying in the van could be adapted to the purpose.
Using the lift Mr Godberry was able to stabilise the crashed car, without causing further injury to its occupants, for the 20 minutes it took ambulance crews to arrive at the scene.
The mother was air-lifted to Oxford's John Radcliffe hospital, where her condition was described as serious, but not life-threatening.
Her daughter, who escaped with minor injuries, will now have to go through the process of making a motor insurance claim against the white van driver who clipped her car. He too sustained only cuts and bruises in the crash.
Ron Godberry, Graham's father, was understandably proud of his son. "It's quite a thing to have done," he said.
"The paramedics have said that his actions saved that woman's life, so I'm very proud of him."
Lee-Anne Bass, spokesperson for the woman car insurance experts at CoverGirl, said "I thought men were the ones supposed to be having all the accidents - that's why us women get cheaper car insurance.
"For a woman, car insurance claims can seem a bit daunting but it sounds like it won't be anything in comparison to this dreadful accident."