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Car goes airborne off tow truck ramp on Georgia highway (video)
cleveland.com ^ | 31 May 2023 | Zach Mentz

Posted on 05/31/2023 8:52:47 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

A Florida woman’s car went airborne while driving in Georgia after her car traveled up the ramp of a parked tow truck and flew more than 100 feet.

The incident happened May 24 on U.S. 84 in Lowndes County, according to body camera footage. A Lowndes County Sheriff’s deputy was responding to a car accident on the opposite side of the highway’s grass median. While the deputy was at the crash scene, his body camera recorded the car drive up the back ramp of the lowered tow truck ramp before taking flight for approximately 120 feet, flipping and rolling over in the process, according to WCTV in Georgia.

Florida woman – suffering from serious injuries.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: airborne; carlaunched; wow
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To: I Drive Too Fast

That’s crazy.


21 posted on 06/01/2023 3:33:05 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: DUMBGRUNT

...maybe she wanted to get a jump on the guy in the slow lane!


22 posted on 06/01/2023 3:47:12 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Zack Attack

Make sure an aluminum baseball bat is thrown in.

Evel had been known to use one.


23 posted on 06/01/2023 4:00:17 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: I Drive Too Fast

Florida woman imitates the Dukes of Hazzard ping.
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I learned something reading one of the tweets about this... apparently, a total of 317 Dodge Chargers were used during the making of the Dukes of Hazard shows.


24 posted on 06/01/2023 4:41:17 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This video has been added to my PowerPoint presentation I use when teaching the airborne equations to my Traffic Crash Reconstruction students.


25 posted on 06/01/2023 5:15:04 AM PDT by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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To: animal172

—”...when teaching the airborne equations to my Traffic Crash Reconstruction students.”

Would that be a quick crash course?


26 posted on 06/01/2023 5:33:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: brianl703

She’ll be called Bo Duke for the rest of her life.


27 posted on 06/01/2023 5:41:57 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: brianl703

The tow truck did have its lights on, dumb witch tore them off when she hit the truck.


28 posted on 06/01/2023 5:42:23 AM PDT by mom aka the evil dictator
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Very quick indeed.


29 posted on 06/01/2023 5:57:51 AM PDT by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

BOOKMARK


30 posted on 06/01/2023 6:14:05 AM PDT by DFG
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To: I Drive Too Fast

I saw where someone added the Dukes theme song to it on Twitter yesterday!


31 posted on 06/01/2023 6:16:58 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Mostly peaceful.)
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To: AndyJackson

She was probably going 75 mph and in the left lane and didn’t realize that the tow truck was stopped (no flashing lights) and her attention got diverted by the roll over wreck in the median.

What kind of fool tow truck driver stops his truck in the left lane and lowers the ramp without any warning lights for oncoming traffic?

There should have been a State Trooper with emergency lights on blocking that lane, regardless, the blame lies entirely with the tow truck driver. The ranking officer at scene failed to manage the accident scene.


32 posted on 06/01/2023 6:40:10 AM PDT by Colo9250 ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My son is a trucker. He parks his pickup all week at a small truck stop while he’s on the road. The truck stop is near a freeway exit where drivers must turn right or left.

One night at 2am, a drunk driver decided to go straight and pulled a Duke’s of Hazzard imitation over the embankment, flew about 30 feet and drove right into the only pickup truck in the parking lot. My son’s truck.

It also got caught on video.


33 posted on 06/01/2023 7:12:42 AM PDT by cyclotic
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To: mom aka the evil dictator

We must not have watched the same video.


34 posted on 06/01/2023 8:17:16 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: dfwgator
Carrie : That was great! I want to jump something else! I want to jump a car, or a house, I wanna jump something!

Bandit : Then jump me!

35 posted on 06/01/2023 8:20:51 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Don’t text and drive note tires squealing about one second before ramp jump.


36 posted on 06/01/2023 8:45:29 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Zack Attack

Daisy Duke just couldn’t resist.
“I’ll show them boys how a real woman does it “.


37 posted on 06/01/2023 9:24:43 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: stylecouncilor

lol.


38 posted on 06/01/2023 9:27:24 AM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: hecticskeptic

That is a shame how many were destroyed filming this show.


39 posted on 06/01/2023 9:39:11 AM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: linMcHlp

I think that was in the movie”Every which way but lose”.🤔


40 posted on 06/01/2023 7:22:43 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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