A car involved in a Staten Island crash on March 20, 2015
IN PHOTO: A car involved in a Staten Island crash is pictured on a NYPD truck at the accident area in New York, March 20, 2015. According to city officials, one city police officer and a civilian were killed in the fatal crash involving a truck and a car on a Staten Island road. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz

A 45-year-old woman from Beachwood, New Jersey, United States and who was driving a car was saved by the authorities minutes before it exploded. The woman, alleged to be drunk, was found unconscious and limping on the driver’s seat. A heart-stopping footage of the video was released by the police.

Her rescue began when Kinnelon police received a report from someone on Thursday, April 6 about “an erratic driver.” Worried, police officers quickly responded and found an overturned “2006 Toyota Solara” near Kinnelon, Morris County. The car was already smouldering and its horn was blasting.

Ricky Ferriola and Mark Ehrenber, Kinnelon police officers, immediately approached the car and started calling the attention of the driver, Dawn Milosky. But neither a response nor a gesture came. Believing the Milosky was unconscious, the officers cut Milosky’s seat belt and dragged her limp body from the car for first aid.

A few seconds after, the video showed flames started in the convertible. After another two minutes, the video displayed an explosion. The cutting of the driver’s seat belt took two minutes. By then, the smoke was already billowing.

She has been charged “with driving while intoxicated, having an open container of alcohol in the vehicle, reckless driving and with failure to stay in her lane.” Kinnelon Police said they released the video because they “wanted the public to see” it.

“If it was not for the citizen interaction by calling the police about an erratic driver, this woman, who was driving, it would have been a fatal motor vehicle accident,” Sergeant Chris Carbone was quoted by Pix11. He also praised the two officers who were instrumental in doing the heart-pounding rescue. Carbone also disclosed that in many times, they do not think of their own safety as law enforcers.

Milosky was administered with CPR and had to use a defibrillator. She was brought via an airlift to Morristown Medical Center and reports say she is recuperating. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced around 30 people in the US are killed in vehicular crashes involving “an alcohol-impaired driver.” A study released in 2008 stated alcohol impaired driving in Australia decreased by 32 percent. Great Britain recorded a decline by 50 percent while Canada had 28 percent decrease.

You can watch the video below:

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