This is the moment heroic bystanders risked their own lives to rescue a 56-year-old woman from her burning vehicle on a New York state highway.<br /><br />Video footage shows the moment the woman was pulled from the burning car and dragged across lanes of traffic away from the inferno.<br /><br />The good samaritan rescuers then carried her away after wrapping her in pieces of clothing.<br /><br />The woman, from Farmingville, New York, USA, is now in critical condition at hospital.<br /><br />The filmer said: "This is how my day started out driving Westbound on the LIE (Long Island Expressway) before exit 61.<br /><br />"These 5 BRAVE, COURAGEOUS PASSERSBY risked their lives to pull this Woman out of a BURNING FIREBALL of a CAR, to SAVE HER LIFE..!!<br /><br />"I felt quite helpless, wishing that I had a FIRE EXTINGUISHER in my car, so I could do something to help.. Went to the Store to buy 2 right away, so this NEVER happens again..!!<br /><br />"THANK GOD FOR GOOD SAMARITANS / PASSERSBY- WHO HELP OTHERS IN NEED, praying for this Woman's Complete Recovery."<br /><br />The incident occurred on the Long Island Expressway close to Holtsville and Holbrook on January 18.
