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 couldnt 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 couldnt believe what I was seeing. I couldnt see how this person is still alive, its 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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Clearly someone has played way too much Forza Horizon 3.
Bo Duke
Watch the video!
I suspect vehicular suicide was the driver’s intent.
Wouldn’t surprise me if alcohol were involved.
Just a good ol’ boy, never meanin no harm...
There was no damage to any of the rail cars or the track.
Jake: Car’s got a lot of pickup.
Elwood: It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
"....it'll be a few weeks, but we'll buff it out"
A hundred miles an hour down a dead end street,
launched up an embankment, where the freight trains meet.
Sailing through night air like an eagle’s bliss,
thinking, “Hold my beer. Now watch this.”
Minor damage to two of the car roofs. See minute 1:08 on the video.
Did the audio pick up anyone saying “Watch this” right before the car became airborne?
Evel Knievil’s retarded cousin Awful Knawful
My wife and mother were riding with me through east Colorado in our Subaru at night. We had come to this tiny town in which we were to apparently turn left, but I continued to keep going straight for the next block. There was no stop sign, so I kept going at 25 MPH on the pitch black street. Suddenly, we were completely airborne, having hit the incredibly sharp crown of an east-west street (we were heading north). The car sailed for at least three seconds before coming back down between parked cars on either immediate side.
I stopped the car and we got out to see what had just happened and to assess any damage.
I have never experienced anything like that before in my life, but I can attest to leaping a good 10-15 vertical feet from a “slow” moving car.
That’s a Dukes Of Hazard move. Does the horn on that Monte Carlo play “Dixie?”
Good think you were in a Scoob, with that flat four up front. If you’d been driving a nose-heavy car, you’d have met the pavement head on.
He blew through a ‘T’ intersection.
I wouldn’t call it a dead end street,
because, well, you can turn left or right.
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