‘I Didn’t Have A Second Thought’: Nurse Shares Story After Helping Victims In Triple Fatal Crash

A Tulsa nurse helped pull two victims out of their mangled car, moments before it caught on fire.

"I didn't have a second thought when I stopped and saw what was going on- just stop the car and run towards it," said nurse Irina Green. 

Tulsa Police said a woman was driving the wrong way up the 91st Street exit ramp and slammed head-on into a car with two people inside. Police said all three were killed instantly.

Green said any trained nurse would've done what she did, and her heart is going out to the victim's families.

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"I think everything happens for a reason. I had to be on the road at that exact time," said Green. 

Green doesn't know why she left work when she did Monday night, but she believes every second mattered.

"I noticed people stopping and I was like, 'What is going on? It is late at night. It cannot be traffic.' My heart skipped a beat or two and then I got closer, saw what was going on there were no police yet. It just happened seconds before, I could've been in that car crash," said Green. 

She parked right behind what was left of the two cars and ran towards the chaos.

"There were already two gentleman there around the car trying to open the doors which was impossible," said Green. "It was already on fire, so they reached down, grabbed the first person and pulled them through the window."

Irina checked for a pulse, she felt nothing.

"I grabbed by the hand, and we pulled them out and further, I kept telling them, 'We have to get them further away from the car because they are burning and there was gasoline and oils all over the ground,'" said Green. "Seconds after we got the second person out, the car just burst in flames."

Green said she is not a hero. Three people lost their lives, and all she wants now is for the families involved to know they did everything they could.

"I want to believe that any other nurse or doctor on the road would've done the same thing," said Green. "We are trained. We train in school, we train in the workplace to run towards. If someone is having an emergency you don't run away from it, you run towards it to help and do your job."

Green has been a nurse for 10 years. She is currently teaching nursing classes at Tulsa Tech and will finish her master's degree by the end of the year.