Good Samaritan saves runaway car with 3 kids inside at gas station in Deer Park, Long Island

A stranger came to the rescue of three little girls trapped in a runaway car Wednesday.

The drama unfolded outside a gas station on Long Island, where a sedan started going in reverse with the girls inside.

David Cincotta of North Babylon was inside the station's store buying something, and the girl's mother was there as well, buying Gatorade for her daughters.

He saw the car start going in reverse, and the mom went out to chase after it, trying to stop the car first.

Cincotta, thankfully was close behind.

"I started following and running after her," he said.

And then he heard screaming.

"I heard the kids scream. That wasn't mom get me gum, that was something was wrong," said Cincotta.

Cincotta flew into the car and put it in park only feet away from a major road where the light had just turned green.

"I didn't even think. It was react, go," he said.

And for that Cincotta has been getting kudos from the gas station workers where he's a regular.

"Had he not stopped that car I have no doubt in my mind that the car would have been hit and the kids would have been injured," said gas station employee Naggash Chaudhry.

And if you were a good friend of the father of 6, you would understand that there's another reason this entire thing is amazing.

"I don't run. I have neuropathy in my hips from diabetes. I trip a lot just walking. A lot of friends say I've never seen you run like that. I said me neither," said Cincotta.

But this time he did. And the woman thanked him for it.

"She gave me a big hug. Crying, thank you, thank you," he said.

('Have you talked to her since?') "No, just going about your lives. Just going about our lives. Another day in paradise," said Cincotta.