Video footage from New Mexico police shows officers heroically reaching into a flipped, burning car to rescue a man after it crashed during a street race.
The Farmington Police Department shared the video of the September 26 wreck to ‘highlight the dangers of street racing’.
A surveillance camera caught a white sedan flying down the road, before it clipped the side of another moving vehicle.
That was enough to cause the car to spin around nearly 90 degrees, collide with a parked car, and flip over into a nearby parking lot.
It exploded on impact while two male occupants were inside, police said.
As events unfolded, police identified another car involved in the race, a red Toyota Supra, seen speeding and halting close to the crash scene.
The driver of the Toyota, 22-year-old Kalynn Kenworthy, was later charged with racing on highways.
Officers immediately arrived on the scene because they had been aware of the race and had tried to stop the white car, which fled from them.
The image shows a white car in the intersection involved in the race, which shortly afterward collides with another white car and swerves into a parked vehicle.
Pictured: The white car, which had two people inside, exploded on impact
Pictured: Police pull this 20-year-old man out of the still-burning car with his sweatshirt visibly emitting smoke
Body camera footage captures an officer pulling someone named Kenworthy from the fiery vehicle as she urgently shouted to a friend, ‘Grab my hand! Grab my f***ing hand!’
The individual inside, a 20-year-old man, cried out in pain while being freed. His sweatshirt caught fire momentarily before being extinguished as he lay on the ground.
The man stayed face down in the parking lot of a local grocery store for several minutes while the police waited for paramedics to arrive.
He revealed that he was the passenger and the driver was his friend. The driver would later be located among onlookers and was instructed to sit near the police setup.
It’s unclear how the driver got out of the car, but police said charges are pending against him. They have only identified him as a 27-year-old man.
At one point, Kenworthy tried to check on her injured friend as he repeatedly begged police to call his grandma.
‘I’m just making sure that he’s okay,’ she said as officers tried to get her to stay back. ‘All I care about is him, I don’t give a f*** about that, I don’t give a f*** about my car.’
When asked, the man said his hands and face hurt. His nose was visibly gushing blood, and he believed it was broken during the crash.
‘Dude, I’m f***ed up,’ he said. ‘I don’t want to die.’
Pictured: The car continues to burn in the background as the injured man lay on the ground of the parking lot where he was pulled to safety
An emotional Kalynn Kenworthy, the 22-year-old driver of the red Toyota Supra police say was involved in the race, tries to get past police to check on her friend
Kenworthy, who has a history of street racing and speeding violations, was arrested and booked into the San Juan County Detention Center the morning of September 27, the day after the crash
Both men, the driver and the passenger, were taken to the San Juan Regional Medical Center for treatment, police said.
Kenworthy, who was not injured, was booked into the San Juan County Detention Center the morning of September 27, the day after the crash.
It was also revealed that she has an extensive history of traffic violations. She has been cited for racing in 2023 and in August 2025, a month before this incident.
She also has more than seven speeding citations within the past four years, and each time, she was clocked going more than 15 miles per hour over the speed limit.
Farmington police responded to 2,672 crashes in 2024, which combined left 463 people injured and seven dead.
Police Chief Steve Hebbe has called the street racing ‘kind of in the fabric of Farmington’ and a ’20-year problem’.
