Posted on 10/14/2016 11:10:27 AM PDT by CedarDave
BELEN, N.M. (KRQE) – It was an incredible scene, and even more incredible the driver is still alive. Workers at the rail yard couldn’t believe their eyes when a car came flying out of nowhere — over three different trains.
The car came flying down Baca which is a dead-end at 1st Street in Belen. Police said the driver hit this small embankment and landed on the other aside of those trains. They said the driver was doing almost 100 miles per hour down Baca Thursday morning.
Police said there were no skid marks or indication of braking or slowing down, and the owner of the towing company said the damage to the car is one of the worst she has ever seen.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I couldn’t see how this person is still alive, it’s a miracle, I hope he does make it, so he can tell his story on how he can clear all those train tracks,” said Christine Martinez, owner Curbside Towing.
When officers arrived the driver was breathing but unconscious. He was airlifted to UNM Hospital in serious condition. Police say the car flew at least 20 feet off the ground and it landed about 150 feet away from where it took off, crumpling on impact.
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He was alone. Possibly that was the problem- no one to hold his beer...
You ok ?.........:o)
At your link I couldn’t get the video to play. Here it is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJ_YFXgflw
Thanks!
And if you look closely you will see the front end begin to buckle then the camera cuts away. I read the producers had advertisements out buying up all the autos used in DoH so they could wreck them with jumps.
One kid tried that with his unmodified auto and broke his back upon landing. The DoH cars were very modified with internal seat shock absorbers to take a jump without injuring the occupants.
If this guy refines his technique a little, he too can make a fortune.
Leni
In the picture the car looks like it needs at least some body work. How can that be so? I see that sort of thing happen all the time in the movies and the cars don’t even break their struts!
In the picture the car looks like it needs at least some body work. How can that be so? I see that sort of thing happen all the time in the movies and the cars don’t even break their struts!
I seem to recall a saying about
God watching over children, small animals and drunks.
What are Bo and Luke doing in NM ?
Blacked out with his foot on the accelerator almost certainly. Why he blacked out is another matter, though DUI is as good a guess as any.
Hubby and I were driving down a dirt road in Oklahoma when we came over a little rise and saw half the road had been washed away. He wasn’t going very fast but there was no stopping in time so hubby gunned it. It was smooth sailing so someone was looking out for us. When we were across, we looked back to see a bit of tire marks on the passenger side and then nothing as the whole thing had fallen through. All he could say the rest of the day was, “I’m sorry, honey, oh, I’m so sorry.” Crazy.
Back in the early 80’s I worked with a guy who swerved to avoid a semi-truck’s lost load of industrial pipes and careened off the road at a rail road bridge while coming home from church with his family in the car.
The car landed at about a 45 degree angle to the direction of the train passing underneath and came to a complete rest atop a box car.
The train traveled about 1/2 mile before it stopped and everyone was unscathed except for the trauma.
Good Lord! Was the story in the papers?
Oh yeah. This happened in a small town in Western NC.
I figured it would have been. Do you recall the year and town?
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