Brian Cook hailed as hero after saving man being dragged by truck on Ring Road

A Maroondah man who saved the life of the motorcyclist dragged 100m down the Ring Road by a truck has told of the horrific scene.

Brian Cook details the horrible moment he saw and rescued the male motorcyclist dragged by a truck in Fawkner on Wednesday.

A Maroondah man who saved the life of a motorcyclist after a horror collision on the Ring Road has spoken out for the first time on the dramatic ordeal.

Brian Cook, 37, was driving to work on Wednesday when he heard cars beeping their horns near the Sydney Rd exit.

“I first thought it was a joke when one starts beeping their horns and the others start doing the same, but then the cars around me stopped, and that’s when I’d seen the truck,” Mr Cook told the Herald Sun.

“The back of the truck had a motorbike stuck under it, and the truck was still driving. I looked at the wheels and saw a set of legs hanging out of it.”

Mr Cook, a lead landscaper at Mr Resin Driveway, started honking and cut into the middle lane to get the attention of the slow driving truck driver.

“I was waving my hand at the truck, beeping, flashing, anything to make it stop because I could see the man was being dragged by the truck,” he said.

Eventually he got the driver’s attention and she pulled to a halt.

M80 Ring road at Sydney Road, where the accident happened. Picture: Supplied

“She was beside herself — she just couldn't believe it. She was sick on the scene,” he said.

The truck driver raced to call Triple-0 before handing the phone to Mr Cook, too distraught to talk herself.

“She ran back to the truck and called the ambulance. She was speaking to someone but said she couldn’t do it and passed the phone to me. By this time, I was talking to the man underneath the wheel,” Mr Cook said.

Mr Cook said the 49-year-old motorcyclist was conscious despite being dragged almost 100m.

“The whole of his hip and groin was stuck under the wheel, pushing him forward — he suffered quite badly.”

The Triple-0 operator instructed Mr Cook how to stop the bleeding until paramedics arrived.

“He was bleeding a lot, I could see him change his colour, and so she asked me if I had a towel, and I didn‘t, but I did have my jumper in the car, so I ran to my car and also grabbed a witches hat at the back of my car just for more safety,” he said.

“And I just applied pressure to his groin. To slow the bleeding down. And then the ambulance arrived very quickly.”

Mr Cook said the motorcyclist told him he had been trying to “come through” when his handlebar hit the side of the truck.

The rider was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he remained in a critical condition on Thursday afternoon.

“I can't get it out of my mind,” Mr Cook said.

“Even to my son, I said ‘it’s a good thing I was stuck in traffic and running late for work because at least I did stop’.”

A police spokesman on Thursday said no charges had been laid as the investigation remained ongoing.