State police say 20-year-old Cody Cormany is dead after smashing his motorcycle into a car along Old Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge Wednesday evening. The motorcycle's gas tank exploded and both it and the car burst into flames.

Troopers say Cormany was thrown from the motorbike and died at the scene. Witnesses say he was heading down Old Jefferson at a high rate of speed, when the driver of the car pulled out into the roadway from Briar Place and right into the path of the motorcylce.

Gas from the motorcylce covered the driver of the car and he caught fire. Passersby pulled him out of the car and tried to put out the flames. When they couldn't, they grabbed him and threw him into a ditch full of water. He was transported to a hospital in an unknown condition, but is receiving treatment for burns.

One of the people who stopped to help twisted his ankle getting up from the ditch and paramedics also had to take him to a hospital. The name of the driver of the car has not been released.