Nothing humorous about people dying in car accidents....
But doesn’t this look like a scene from the old CHips series? They had a lot of fires and explosions in the concrete jungles of the California freeways. Ponch could somehow pull a lovely actress and her pinheaded boyfriend out of the car just as the gas tank blew it twenty feet into the air.
He may well have hit the tree solid enough to jam the doors shut against the front fender or quarter panel. I don’t recall how big the console is but he might well not been able to crawl across to access the passenger side door.