First responders who have been clearing a crash on a Georgia freeway witnessed a scary spectacle, when a motorist drove onto a tow truck’s lowered ramp at pace.
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First responders who have been clearing a crash on a Georgia freeway witnessed a scary spectacle, when a motorist drove onto a tow truck’s lowered ramp at pace.
AP through YouTube / Screenshot by NPR
The wild scene was straight out of an motion film — nevertheless it was recorded by a police digicam.
A tow truck had lowered its ramp to clear a automotive crash on a Georgia freeway — however then a motorist got here from behind and drove onto the ramp at pace. Her sedan launched excessive into the air, hovering some 120 toes earlier than crashing again down onto the roadway.
The scary spectacle was captured on video by the physique digicam of a Lowndes County sheriff’s deputy who was helping with the preliminary crash on the westbound facet of Georgia Freeway 38, close to Valdosta.
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A 21-year-old lady from Tallahassee, Fla., was driving the sedan, in keeping with police. She was taken to South Georgia Medical Middle with what the incident report describes as suspected critical accidents. The crash happened on Could 24, nevertheless it attracted new consideration after the police video was launched.
The footage exhibits a wrecker sitting within the eastbound left lane of the divided four-lane freeway, throughout from the place the deputy and others have been working at a crash scene. A Nissan Altima is then seen coming from behind the wrecker on the highway, the place the posted pace restrict is 65 mph. The automotive then drives onto the wrecker’s ramp and vaults over the wrecker’s cab.
The crash report diagrams the trail a Nissan Altima took because it hit a tow truck and was vaulted 120 toes down the freeway by the salvage automobile’s ramp.
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The crash report diagrams the trail a Nissan Altima took because it hit a tow truck and was vaulted 120 toes down the freeway by the salvage automobile’s ramp.
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The sedan twists within the air, touchdown on its facet and roof and rolling after glancing off a automotive that was touring in the precise lane. The deputy shouts in shock, then shortly reviews the brand new emergency on his radio as he sprints towards the crash web site. The Altima involves relaxation right-side up, its entrance going through again up the highway towards the truck.
The tow truck had its emergency lights on because it sat within the left lane, in keeping with the incident report. That element shouldn’t be apparent from the video, because the automobile would not have warning lights on its roof.
An emergency employee who had been strolling in entrance of the tow truck within the grassy median narrowly escaped what might have been a critical harm, because the preliminary collision despatched an enormous hunk of particles flying previous him. A sheriff’s deputy who was on foot on the scene was hit by airborne particles and was taken to the hospital as a precaution, in keeping with the report.
