Sprint cams seize the wildest issues, and may also help you out by exhibiting what actually occurred. With out video, it might in all probability be exhausting to imagine {that a} Honda sedan jumped throughout all six lanes of the Dawn Freeway earlier than touchdown in a tree, stories Information 12 Lengthy Island. It is equally exhausting to imagine that the unidentified 70-year-old driver suffered solely minor accidents and that no different site visitors was concerned within the crash.
“He had a medical episode inflicting him to lose management and go flying up the embankment on the service highway, over each the westbound then eastbound lanes, and landed within the embankment down the eastbound aspect,” mentioned Dennison DeNatalie, a spokesman for the Bay Shore Fireplace Division, to the New York Put up. The Honda landed the other way up in a tree on the alternative aspect of the freeway, which seems to have cushioned the touchdown. The driving force was transported to South Shore College Hospital and is predicted to make a full restoration. We’d simply add this to our record of luckiest saves caught on video.
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The Honda was driving south on Pine Acres Boulevard. The Dawn Freeway cut up this highway into two sections when it was upgraded to a limited-access freeway within the Nineteen Seventies, based on NYC Roads. Because of this Pine Acres Boulevard ends at a T intersection with the Dawn Freeway service highway earlier than resuming on the south aspect. The freeway itself sits on prime of a steep embankment meant to stop stray site visitors from doing what this Honda did.
This incident may’ve led to catastrophe, like different dashcam movies we have seen, in so some ways. The Honda ran a cease signal and crossed two lanes of service highway site visitors, which may’ve stopped it in its tracks in a horrible wreck. It may have crashed into the bushes alongside the embankment, however as a substitute discovered a path by means of them that launched it over the Dawn Freeway.
On the 30 mph pace restrict of Pine Acres Boulevard, the Honda would not have made it far, but it surely was clearly going a lot sooner than that to catch air all the way in which throughout the freeway. It occurred simply after 5:00 p.m. on a Wednesday, proper in the course of the afternoon rush hour, but in some way it cleared all six lanes of the freeway, plus the service highway’s two lanes, with out slicing any automobiles in two.
