WABC reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe was still unconscious when his cell phone pinged 911 thanks to the \u201cCall After Severe Crash feature,\u201d which automatically calls emergency services following a 20-second countdown.<\/p>\n
New Jersey cops pull an unconscious driver from the flaming wreckage of his car. South Brunswick PD<\/p>\n
Hero officers Yash Shroff and Thomas Sites were then seen arriving as the car was in flames, yet still breaking the driver\u2019s side window to pull out the driver.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a miracle by every aspect of the word miracle,\u201d South Brunswick police said. \u201cAnd the officers\u2019 actions are heroic. As you can see in the video, it\u2019s pretty dramatic, how the flames are leaping at their feet as they\u2019re pulling him out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin seconds, that scene turns\u2026 to a fully engulfed care fire. This is a miracle \u2014 a Thanksgiving miracle, I call it,\u201d cops added.<\/p>\n
The fiery crash took place on Nov. 9, but Islam was able to return home to his family on Tuesday after undergoing surgery to his back and neck.<\/p>\n
Dashcam footage shows the vehicle engulfed in flames. South Brunswick PD<\/p>\n
The driver crashed into a tree after suffering a medical episode behind the wheel. South Brunswick PD<\/p>\n
His grateful father, Naushad, wrote a letter to the two cops who saved his son\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t say anything other than thank you. What else can I say? For them, it\u2019s probably the work they do every day to save everybody\u2019s life. But for me, it\u2019s getting back my son to my family, so I can\u2019t thank them enough,\u201d Naushad told NBC New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s doing well, he\u2019s talking. When he was in the hospital, we weren\u2019t sure how he was doing. It was really, really bad,\u201d Naushad said.<\/p>\n
The \u201cCall After Severe Crash\u201d feature on his iPhone likely saved his life. NBC 4<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s doing much better. I would say that compared to what he went through, it\u2019s nothing but divine intervention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The final cause of the crash is still under investigation by police in Franklin Township. Police did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic dashcam video shows New Jersey police pulling an unconscious man from the burning wreckage of his car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,7991,57,1066,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-52971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-car-crashes","9":"tag-iphone","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}