Ivan Tukhtin encountered something rather unusual early Monday morning on his way home from Hoboken.


The 24-year-old was driving on the Newark Bay Extension of the New Jersey Turnpike in Jersey City just after midnight, when he noticed two orange traffic cones blocking both lanes and a car pulled over on the shoulder.


When he stopped, a man slowly approached his passenger side door. Tukhtin's dash camera caught the entire encounter.
"What's going on?" Tukhtin asked the man. "Can I help you with something?"


The man begins to speak, but Tukhtin weaves through the cones and takes off.
"At first I was very calm," Tukhtin told NJ Advance Media. "It's unusual but he [wasn't] threatening me so [I gave] him a chance."


Still, Tukhtin called police after he drove away from the scene.


State police spokeswoman Alina Spies said troopers responded to the scene and discovered that the car had run out of gas.


The driver and his passenger were trying to get help in an "inappropriate and dangerous" way, State Police Capt. Stephen Jones said.


Troopers charged Kareem Walston, 37, of Orange, with driving under the influence.


Hashen Clark, 36, of Jersey City, was charged with hindering. He had a warrant out of Hudson County, and was transported to the Hudson County Sheriff's Office, Spies said. No one answered the phone at the Sheriff's office Wednesday night.


No further information was available Thursday morning. Spies said the incident is under investigation and further charges are possible.