South Orange Police are investigating a car fire that sent one person to the hospital suffering critical injuries overnight.
Emergency responders were called to the 300 block of Scotland Road at around 3:30 a.m after they received reports of a crash with serious injuries.
Upon their arrival, firefighters extinguished the fire that engulfed a car at that location.
According to officials, emergency crews pulled an unconscious and unresponsive person from the vehicle then provided life-saving medical techniques shortly before rushed the victim to University Hospital in Newark.
The incident remains under investigation.