A WEDDING singer has told how he rescued two men from a serious car crash as he drove home from a gig.

Michael Oakley, 30, was making his way from a function in Greenock when a car with no lights on suddenly sped past him on the A8 near Port Glasgow.

Fearing for the driver's safety, Michael and his bandmate Iain McHardy followed - only to look on in horror as the car ploughed into the Woodhall roundabout at 80mph, before flipping over, smashing through a crash barrier and plummeting down an embankment.

Michael said: "We had flashed to tell him to put his lights on, but when he got to the roundabout he didn't slow down.

"The car flew across the barrier and ended up on its back. We could see marks showing where it had skidded and a whole load of stuff strewn along the road - everything from a mobile phone to fast food wrappers."

Fearing the people within the car had been badly injured, Michael asked Iain to stop their car and he bravely rushed to the stricken vehicle.

Inside it was Javier Yanguaez, 32, a Panamanian ship's engineer and his friend.

The pair had become lost and disorientated while driving in Port Glasgow on 19 November last year and hit the roundabout by mistake.

Michael added: "I told Iain to stop and immediately ran over.

"I thought they might have been dead - it was just a horrendous sight.

"Luckily they were alright but I think the fuel tank had burst because the car smelled of petrol.

"The front of it had caught fire, so I had to drag the two of them out through the window and get them away from the car.

"One had broken his arm, but they weren't too badly hurt considering what had just happened."

Yanguaez - who had been living in Inverclyde while on a fixed contract with a shipping firm - recently pleaded guilty to driving dangerously at excessive speed and failing to slow down at the roundabout, causing damage to the car and to street furniture.

Sheriff Tom Ward banned the engineer from driving for 20 months, and fined him �700 for the offence.

Meanwhile, modest Michael says his rescue mission was a natural response.

He said: "If you see that kind of scene, your first reaction is to go out and help.

"You don't think, you just react, and I'd like to think anyone else would do the same."