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(CNN) In his three years of service with the Montgomery County, Maryland, police department, Officer Cody Fields has been dispatched to car crashes many times.

But just after midnight on September 1, 2015, he responded to a crash unlike any other.

"As I was driving up to it, all I could see was the bright image of flames coming from the car. I thought, 'Oh crap. It's on fire. I hope there is not somebody inside,'" Fields recalls.

But there was.

A 34-year-old man had fallen asleep while behind the wheel. His car veered off busy I-495 in Maryland and slammed into the concrete barrier, knocking him unconscious.

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