Police officer and members of public save man from burning SUV

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Ernesto Irizarry, Officer Woodsman
Jones and Wayne Young

One is police officer, the other a retired officer and the third wants to be a cop.

They all had the same thought when they came upon an SUV in flames after a crash on the Stevenson Expressway near Darien, Illinois:

Get the driver out.



The crash occurred around 5:30 a.m. Sunday when a 28-year-old man driving the wrong way on the Stevenson collided with an SUV at Lemont Road.

The wrong-way driver was killed and a young man in the SUV was trapped as it started burning.

Romeoville (Illinois), Officer Woodsman "Woody" Jones, 38, saw the wreck on the other side of the road.

"There were no other vehicles there so I stopped to assist," said Jones, a 13-year veteran.

Jones, who had been northbound on I-55, also called for backup and sped around to the southbound lanes.

At least two other men stopped to help Jones: Wayne Young and Ernesto Irizarry of Chicago, an aspiring officer. "We decided we needed to get him out of the vehicle," Jones said.



"You do what you have to do," said Young, 66, a retired Burbank police officer. "I would hope that everybody would do something like that."