The South Brunswick Police Department released video of two officers rescuing a man from a crashed, burning vehicle early this month. 
Two police officers in South Brunswick, New Jersey, are being hailed as heroes after saving a man’s life by pulling him from a crashed, burning vehicle just moments before it went up in flames.
According to the South Brunswick Police Department, the entire incident unfolded on Sunday, November 9, 2025, just before 3 a.m.
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Police said officers Thomas Sites and Yash Shroff had been called to Route 27 near Andover Road after receiving reports of a crash.
A single vehicle had gone off the roadway and crashed in Franklin Township, but the two South Brunswick officers were the closest to the scene, according to police.
When the officers arrived, they found a 26-year-old man unconscious in the driver’s seat, police said. The man was unresponsive, the vehicle’s doors were locked and smoke was pouring out of the front of the vehicle.
Police said Officer Shroff attempted to break the window with his baton but was unsuccessful. Officer Sites then went to grab his “breaching tool” from his patrol car just as flames began to show from the front of the burning vehicle.
Officer Sites smashed the rear passenger’s window in hopes of unlocking the door. He then broke the driver’s side window, reached through the broken glass, and unlocked the door, according to police.
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Police said as Officer Sites opened the driver’s door, flames approached his feet from the undercarriage of the vehicle. That’s when both officers were able to pull the driver out of the vehicle.
Then, within seconds of pulling the driver out, police said flames consumed the entire front of the vehicle.
According to police, as the officers dragged the heavily injured driver further away from the vehicle to safety, the entire vehicle was engulfed in flames.
“I have watched the video and it is the definition of heroic. The driver is severely injured, trapped, and his car is on fire. The fire was quickly spreading and appears to be almost at Officer Sites’ feet when they are able to free the driver,” said South Brunswick Police Chief Raymond Hayducka. “It is the split-second actions of these officers that this 26-year-old is alive today.”
Firefighters from several stations helped put out the vehicle fire. The cause of the crash has not been revealed at this time.

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