“The car burst into flames,” a witness said at the scene.

A Toyota Highlander driven by a woman on West Lincoln Way was traveling east and a box truck with a male driver had entered the intersection from South Lincoln Avenue and the two collided. The woman was pulled out of her burning vehicle by a passerby and helped away from the vehicle by the passerby and a witness.

The witness called 911 and other 911 calls were coming in, with the Lisbon Police, Lisbon Fire Department and NorthStar Critical Care all responding to the scene, along with lots of neighbors in the area looking to see what was happening.

The witness said the woman kept saying she never had a chance to stop.

Within a couple of minutes of the engine of an SUV catching fire instantly upon impact during a collision with a truck on Monday evening on state Route 30, both vehicles are engulfed in flames (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt)

Lisbon Assistant Fire Chief Gilbert Flory said it’s hard to say what caused the vehicle to catch fire so quickly. The witness said there was an explosion. When asked if the vehicle was electric, Flory said it wasn’t.

Traffic had to be rerouted until the crash could be cleaned up.

An SUV and a truck involved in a collision Monday evening on state Route 30 are destroyed by a fire which started in the engine of the SUV on impact. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt)

Firefighters from the Lisbon Fire Department work to extinguish the fire. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt)

Firefighters from the Lisbon Fire Department work to extinguish the fire. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt)

Firefighters from the Lisbon Fire Department work to extinguish the fire. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt)

A Lisbon firefighter hoses down what’s left of a Toyota Highlander and a box truck after a crash at the intersection of West Lincoln Way and South Lincoln Avenue a little after 5 p.m. Monday in Lisbon. The two drivers escaped injury with some help from bystanders. (Photo by Mary Ann Greier)