INJURED sports car driver Peter Mabey has met the woman who saved his life by helping to pull him out of the cockpit of his burning car.

Amanda Sluman, who is a PE teacher at St Edmund's Girls' School, Laverstock, visited Mr Mabey at his bungalow home in Salisbury at the weekend, giving him the chance to thank her for saving his life.

Mr Mabey (66), whose wife, Eileen is manager of Pembroke House, the sheltered accommodation in Fisherton Street, was trapped inside the special sports car after it burst into flames as he was driving along the Salisbury-London road near St Thomas's railway bridge.

Amanda, who lives in the Bourne Valley, stopped and tried to pull 15-stone Mr Mabey from the tiny cockpit as flames licked around his legs.

Unable to do it on her own, she flagged down motorists and a man stopped and helped her.

Two other men from a blue van - believed to be a builders or decorators - rushed to the burning car and put out the flames.

Last week, the Journal carried an appeal from Mr Mabey for the heroic rescuers to come forward so that he could thank them.

Mr Mabey spent several days in hospital receiving treatment for burn injuries to one leg and was allowed home on Friday to continue his recovery.

Amanda visited him at his home but neither she nor Mr Mabey knows the identities of the man who helped her nor the two men from the builder's van.

Mr Mabey's wife said: "My husband and I would dearly love to meet the three men if they would contact us."