WATCH: Dash Cam Shows Cops Thrown Back After Man Blows Up His Own Car

Austin PD dash cam caught a shocking incident late Tuesday night, when a man lit his own car aflame as officers approached it.

Two officers were injured after they responded to a call of a man who was threatening to blow himself up. They found him standing outside of his car before a gas station, where he warned them he was going to set his car on fire.

When the officers tried to pull him from the car, he flicked his lighter, which may have been doused in fuel, blowing the officers back.

“That car got hot quick,” a fire department spokesman said. “We’re talking thousands of degrees inside there, you saw the force it created right there. For him to get back in the car like that, to do that, he was very dedicated on killing himself.”

One officer was able to drive himself to the hospital, where he was treated for minor burn injuries; the other was treated at the scene, per KXAN.

Watch below. WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC.

[h/t KXAN]
[Image via screengrab]

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