Airbag revives man choking behind wheel

Oil Tank repairman Richard Silvia was driving down a busy road when he popped some raisins into his mouth. He choked, and passed out.

Silvia, 53, then smashed into a car, whose driver is still shaken by the accident. "I see this big truck coming at my car. It was pretty scary," said Tabbatha Texeira, the crash victim. 

She tried to avoid the truck, but her car was totaled. "He swerved into my lane and crashed into the driver side door of my car," said Texeira.

After smashing her green Oldsmobile, police say that he sidewiped a white minivan, and then kept going. 

"He was coming from over there, and then he came up here and crashed on our lawn and went along here, and took out those signs," said a witness. "He crashed right here and that's when his airbag went off."

When the airbag deployed, it struck Silvia in the face, dislodging the raisin from his throat and reviving him.

And in the end, three cars were mangled but no one was seriously hurt. Silvia, who had an abrasion on his wrist, was ticketed for impeded driving.