But when the dad-of-one moved his 44-tonne lorry to shield the crash victim , other commuters got out their cars to demand he move it - complaining they had "places to be."
Darren said he saw up to ten vehicles shoot around the car as it lay on the northbound carriageway at 6.30am last Friday.
Darren, from Hyde, Greater Manchester, said: "If that was my missus or little boy in the car I wouldn't be happy.