The scene sounds worthy of prime-time drama: a man trapped inside a burning car is pulled out by passers-by — just before the car is completely engulfed in flame. 
It really happened two years ago on Interstate 5 in south O.C. And now the man in the car, Timothy Nelligan, has formed a green business alliance with the man who helped save his life.
Nelligan, 34, will hold a grand opening Wednesday for a compressed natural gas refilling dispenser at a Shell Gas Station in San Juan Capistrano. He is president of Go Natural Gas, a company founded by Joshua Radwan — one of several men who helped pull Nelligan from the car.
“He gathered three or four guys together,” Nelligan said of Radwan. “They ended up using the butt end of a fire extinguisher to break the glass.”
They pulled Nelligan through his car window so hard that it tore both his rotator cuffs, he said, although he has no memory of the incident.
“The back seat hit me in the back of the head,” he said, after he was struck from behind by a driver who might have been doing 70 mph or more. “It knocked me out and split my head open. And then the car was immediately on fire.”
