Hero Saves Driver From Fiery Gas Station Crash

An off-duty police officer saved his own life, then a stranger's, in a dramatic crash at a New York gas station. John Vescio, a senior investigator with the New York State Police, was filling up his unmarked state police car at a gas station on the Hutchinson River Parkway in southern New York state.

A 69-year-old man apparently blacked out while driving into the gas station, crashing into the gas pump where Vescio had stopped. Security video from the gas station shows Vescio flee from the scene, then moments later, returning to help the unconscious driver out of his car as the flames grew around the pumps.