A 20-year-old Army football player is being credited for making a courageous play off the field when he and his father witnessed a crash and teamed up to rescue the driver before his vehicle exploded into flames, authorities said. Larry Pickett Jr., a defensive player for the Black Knights, sprang into life-saving action early Sunday in Fort Montgomery, New York, about five miles south of the U.S. Military Academy West Point, where Pickett is enrolled as a second-year cadet. Pickett and his family were returning to West Point after having dinner and came upon a vehicle just after midnight that had apparently swerved off Route 9W in Orange County and crashed into a utility pole, Pickett's father, Larry Pickett Sr., told ABC affiliate station WTVD in Raleigh, South Carolina, where he lives.

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