A surveillance video shared with the Advance/SILive.com shows one Sanitation worker tossing a resident's garbage bin in the truck along with the trash. (Courtesy of Rick Nieva)

It sounds like something out of a movie, where one heroic move might have saved someone’s life.

According to 6ABC in Philadelphia, a worker on the back of a garbage truck shoved his coworker out of the way when he noticed a car heading straight for them in Sicklerville, Camden County.

It all went down before 7 p.m. Tuesday on the 900 block of Johnson Road near Berlin-Cross Keys Road, where the Gloucester Township Police Department says the two workers were on the back of the garbage truck and loading it with trash.

Suddenly, one of the garbage collectors saw a 2005 Chevrolet Malibu headed in their direction.

According to the news outlet, authorities say it was then that the employee pushed the other worker out of the way moments before the Malibu smashed into the back of the truck.

In a narrow escape, the two workers and the garbage truck driver were not injured.

According to the news outlet, firefighters from the Lambs Terrace Fire Department responded to the scene and worked to free the driver of the Malibu from the wreckage.

As for the driver, who was identified as 34-year-old Frank Cavender, he was taken to Jefferson Washington Township Hospital where he died of his injuries.

It’s still unclear if a health crisis, diversion or some other issue led Cavender to crash into the garbage truck, 6ABC reported.

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