Guide Dog Helps Trainers Escape From Oncoming Car (VIDEO)

WATCH: Guide Dog's Dramatic Rescue Of Trainers From Oncoming Car

A guide dog-in-training earned his stripes Monday morning when he alerted his handler and a fellow trainer to an out-of-control car seconds before it barreled into them.

Todd Jurek, a training supervisor for Guide Dogs For The Blind, was accompanying O'Neill, an 18-month-old labrador, and apprentice instructor Danielle Alvarado, who was blindfolded, on a field test in San Rafael, Calif., when a black car nearly backed into them, the Marin Independent Journal reports.

Security cameras show O'Neill spotting the vehicle, and the group immediately running for safety.

"He [the dog] reacted probably two seconds before I did," Jurek told KTVU. "He turned around saw it, then I turned around saw it."

"The worst could have happened ... It's pretty incredible nobody got hurt," he said.

According to the Journal, the driver was a 93-year-old woman and the DMV is investigating her driver's license.

O'Neill is in the process of completing his testing and will be paired with a blind client in two to three weeks.

H/T: Gawker

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