Doherty's derring-do

We wonder what portion of truth is contained in the thrilling tale of Babyshambles rescuing a man from a car crash:

ete and Co were travelling back after a storming set at the V Festival in Chelmsford there on Saturday night.

They were on their way to Stafford for their Sunday V gig when they saw a car smash into a concrete reservation at Toddington.

A band source said: “They saw the overturned car billowing with smoke in the middle of the carriageway. They stopped and pulled a guy in his 50s from the vehicle. He had hit a concrete block on the side of the road and the car flipped over.
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“The man was insisting that he had only had a few fruit juices, but they thought he was protesting a bit too much.”

You'll notice there's a surprising lack of actual detail to the story, leaving room to picture Pete Doherty pulling a man from a blazing car - although we'd put money on the road crew being more likely to have performed any intervention.