Posted on 02/09/2021 1:43:06 PM PST by Eddie01
MILWAUKEE—A driver survived when his pickup truck plunged about 70 feet off a slippery interchange exit ramp in Wisconsin.
A Wisconsin Department of Transportation camera captured the Milwaukee-area crash. The video shows the pickup hitting snow on the right shoulder before flipping over the barrier wall and plummeting to Interstate 94 below as cars pass by.
When deputies arrived, they found the pickup upright in the right shoulder of the westbound I-94 lanes, the sheriff’s office said. Two people were already trying to help the driver, who was conscious and breathing.
The man was taken to a hospital to be evaluated, sheriff’s officials said.
A highway official said crews work as quickly as possible to eliminate snow from shoulders in order to avoid crashes.
“The biggest risk with that is the melting and the freezing creates sort of a ramp, a natural ramp,” Milwaukee County’s Director of Highways and Maintenance Eddie Santiago told WISN-TV.
Santiago said that after plowing, snowplows shift to snow removal from bridges and overpasses because of the potential danger.
I believe that you can see his brake lights come on right before he lands. That is clearly why he survived.
Amen To that.
Just wow.
He pulled the air brake?
Cue that bugs bunny cartoon.
“Mc-Fear-son”
And they are now strutting around like peacocks in heat!
Love 'em.
Intersection of I635 & State HWY175/75...140 ft at top level.
Many a crotch rocket driver has flown off the top level at greater than posted speed limit.
But then, they died doing what they love.
:)
“What kind of truck was it?”
Low rider.
Very likely suffering compressed vertebrae and internal ruptures. A friend dropped from treetop height in a chopper (engine failed, autorotating but couldn’t get away from trees). Those were his damages.
In Little Canada, MN there is an interchange like the one in Milwaukee. One icy morning a man’s car slid on the ice and went over. A few days later my mom and I were in the area of the “incident” we both took the oath to never drive again if we
went over.
The State of MN built an interchange like that to go from I-35 to West I-94. Stupid.
That’s some set of shocks on that pickup.
“He landed it.... What a fantastic dive, with a rough approach. But his take-off, execution and entry were flawless....except for maybe a slight scratch. That, I am sure, will eventually buff out.
Look, he scores a solid 9.3, across the board. The crowd roars.... Fantastic! One for the ages.”
Bwahahahahahahaha
That's a LOL! But seriously, he probably was wearing his seatbelt or he'd have been airborne—his head would have busted out the window and he'd have been whapped onto the highway falling south east while the truck fell north west, and then run over.
I saw a car hit a mid-weight pedestrian once at around 25 or 30 mph tops, and it threw her like a rag doll.
I was just thinking the same thing about his discs—I got a whiplash when T-boned and spun around at a flat intersection at 25 mph back in the 70s and it's still killing me. He would have been suspended upside down in the seatbelt when landing though, and then rolled over; so maybe it won't be so bad. But that first impact upside down might have been enough for the shoulder restraint to break his collarbone or possibly a couple of ribs. Sometimes people brace for impact so hard that their legbones break on impact. Pretty hard to drop and roll in that situation.
God bless him whatever is the case. He survived for a reason. Hope he can make the best of it. Heck of a story to tell the grandkids, it the family jewels weren't crushed in all the excitement there.
In Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge can actually be shut down if the winds get high enough, or the speed limit can be lowered to 40.
I actually drove onto it eastbound in a heavy thunderstorm, once, but ended up sitting at the top inside the “steel tunnel” for an hour or so because a truck near the other end got blown onto its side.
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