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Heroes on the highway: Men rescue woman trapped in car

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Mark Kotch and Bill Peterson embody the saying, not all heroes wear capes. 

Last week these two men were traveling to work when a car drove right in front of them going off the road, flipping numerous times, into a drainage ditch. 

Kotch and Peterson immediately pulled to the side of the road when they saw the car go off the road.
Peterson ran out of the car before it was even stopped to try and save the person from the car. He tried to break the car window by kicking it, but then Kotch soon followed him with a hammer to break the window. 

They broke the window and pulled the woman out, they treated her with their first aid kid until the paramedics arrived. 

They don't want to be known as heroes, they said they just acted the way anyone else should act. 
The woman they saved ended up leaving the hospital a day later with no major injuries.