WATCH: Police Help Rescue Man From Fiery Glen Rock DWI Crash

GLEN ROCK, NJ — Police officers helped resuce a man from a fiery DWI car crash early Saturday morning, authorities said.

Police responded to Lincoln Avenue and Rock Road shortly after 4 a.m. on a report of a head-on motor vehicle crash, said Chief Dean Ackermann.

Officers found one of the vehicles engulfed in flames. The driver of that vehicle got out, but the driver of the second vehicle was trapped and seriously injured and could not get out, Ackermann said.

Local paramedics could not help the trapped driver because the flames were so severe, Ackermann said.

Sgt. Greg Carter and officers Nick Onove and John Tarantino, along with officers from Ridgewood and Hawthorne, shot fire extinguishers at the flames while using equipment in their vehicles and their bare hands to pull the 6-foot, 7-inch, 250-pound Jason A. Bednar from the vehicle, the chief said. The man was not wearing a seat belt and was "entwined" in the wreckage of the vehicle, he said.

Bednar was turned over to Valley Hospital paramedics and Glen Rock Ambulance Corps EMTs. They took him to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, Ackermann said. The other driver, a 23-year-old Passaic man, and also taken to the hospital with "moderate" injuries, the chief said.

Glen Rock firefighters got the fire under control and put it out.

Bednar, 41, of Hawthorne, was charged with assault by auto, driving while intoxicated, and reckless driving. His first court appearance in the case has yet to be scheduled.

The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Fatal Accident Team and Bergen County Sheriff's officers helped Glen Rock officers investigate the crash.

Lincoln avenue between Kenmore and Isabella Place was closed until about 9 a.m., police said.

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