Posted on 06/14/2018 1:36:11 AM PDT by iowamark
A sleepy driver slammed into a toll plaza in Central Florida earlier this month sending a passenger flying into the air in a moment captured on surveillance video.
The Florida Highway Patrol released video of the fiery crash in Osceola County on Monday, which took place around 7:15 a.m. on June 3 near St. Cloud, located south of Orlando.
The speeding car is seen in video striking a barrier in front of a toll lane, sending a man flying out of the vehicle.
The man lands in another toll lane near where a car was paying a toll.
State troopers told FOX13 they believe the driver, Steven Dos Santos, 23, was asleep or fatigued at the time of the crash. There were five people in the car at the time of the crash, according to police.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I watched the video a little more closely and saw another person walk out of the car. Excuse me, but whisky tango sierra foxtrot? That crash looked deadly at the very least. You can never tell.
Sometimes the Good Lord lets you off with a warning.
“We should ban toll booths.”
Most of the “toll booths,” on the Veteran’s Expressway, at least, have been converted to overhead cameras that photograph your license plate. This is more of that automation that does away with jobs. On the other hand, traveling at the same speed for the entire trip, with no stops, certainly makes the trip quicker and more pleasant. Probably, a lot safer as well.
“I wonder how the heck the ejected passenger survived THAT. Or didnt wind up a vegetable on life support.”
Probably all have high blood alcohol content. Makes you relaxed.
What kind of car is this anyways? Their marketing people must be high fiving each other this very minute.
Stopped to help after similar crash many years ago - one man wearing his seatbelt was unhurt, five went through the windshield with critical injuries.
Was everyone asleep in the vehicle? The car approached the toll booth at Mach 1, and no one in the car was screaming to slow down? Weird.
That energy absorber that was hit before the concrete was the life saver...otherwise the car would have been a pancake...instead its passenger compartment was pretty much intact - this was a very high-speed hit.
20 years ago, getting rid of toll booths would mean getting rid of tolls - now getting rid of toll booths is just an excuse to further increase tolls.
Not sure about how much the air bags helped (versus seat belts only)...hard to tell.
I did like the way the workers there simply ignored the whole event and continued to collect money and hang out (and step around the dude who was thrown). Must be union-affiliated. Reminds me of the Star Trek when they beam down in a town square and everyone simply walks past them and ignores them - and Kirk comments “you’d think they had people beaming down every day”.
Now, the stunt driver must be replaced by Tom Cruise..
Yes!
A young girl lost control of her pickup, front ended ours, then flew through the sun roof, landed in the ditch with a cracked skull and broken neck. She lived. Our pickup was hit twice that day, once by the young girl. Then rear ended by the ambulance.
I rolled a new pickup several years ago. As it was rolling the drivers window shattered and the centrifugal force tried to throw me from the vehicle. I had to pull hard to keep my left arm in the truck. The seat belt saved my life.
Modern automotive and road engineering is amazing. 30 years ago, everybody would have been dead.
Evil toll booth. Take them down.
Those employee’s act like it is an everyday occurrence.
Hell no! We should put up more in FL to crash these idiots.
Goodies, goody-goody, yum-yum.
The britcom.
Or to the one laying on the ground, ‘Hey buddy you know you just can’t fly threw these tolls right?”
CT got rid of tollbooths/tolls after a huge fatal accident but finds other ways to get money.
Tollbooths are down in MA but tolls are still there via EZPass or “pay by plate”.(Camera gets pic of plate).Tolltakers were given other hack jobs. No need to slow down or stop for tolls helps avoid traffic jams.
Decades ago it was said tolls on turnpikes, maybe bridges, would go away when bonds were paid off but they say $$ is needed for upkeep.
The Mass Pike(I90) got rid of the toll booths about a year or two ago. Now they just have camera that read your license or EZ Pass.
Not only is it safer but it eliminates the backup at the toll booths especially on major holiday weekends. I can remember sitting in my car for an extra half hour to go through the toll booth on the NY & Mass border going east or west on Thanksgiving weekend years ago.
I think these people are hoarding all the luck and keeping me from winning the lottery.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.