A PASSER-BY pulled a 76-year-old woman to safety just minutes before her car burst into flames following a incident on the A39 on Monday. Firefighters, police and the ambulance service were called to the scene between Holford and Kilve after a vehicle left the road and ended up on its side on the grass verge. Two fire appliances from Williton and Bridgwater, together with a rescue tender from Taunton, went to the scene after reports that a casualty was trapped. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said smoke from the collision site could be seen from a distance. He said a man passing the accident had pulled the driver out of the vehicle by the time firefighters arrived. Crews used a compressed air foam pump, hose reel and breathing apparatus to bring the fire under control and then helped transfer the woman to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. A spokesman for the Avon and Somerset police said the woman was airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol but her injuries were not life threatening or life changing. The road was closed between Nether Stowey and Hill Top Lane, near Kilve, for about one and a half hours as a result of the accident but was re-opened just before 4.30pm.