It had been a long day for Donald Carson when he was driving home from work on Sunday.

The off-duty correctional officer had just finished a double shift at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in South Brunswick, New Jersey when he saw a “dazed” woman who had just gotten into a car collision on the highway. More importantly, she was sitting in her vehicle enough though a fire had started under its hood.

“I seen other cars just driving by, so I said, ‘I have to make a decision now,’” Correction Officer Donald Carson told WPIX. “So basically, I just made a…