Posted on 08/29/2025 6:50:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Jaw-dropping video captured the moment a teen driver backed his truck off a Massachusetts pier - sending the pickup plunging into the water and narrowly missing his dad's boat.
The dramatic ordeal began when the unidentified teen, who was delivering fish bait at the Green Harbor Town Pier in Marshfield on Sunday morning, suddenly sped up while reversing his white Ford truck, WHDH reported.
Stunned witnesses watched as the truck broke through the dock's wooden barrier and plummeted into the water below.
The truck appeared to topple over as it dropped 15 feet off the dock, barely missing his father's boat while the man was on board.
Miraculously, the teen was able to escape through the truck's back window and swim to the side of the pier, where fishermen pulled him to safety.
After he returned to the dock, the driver was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
He did not sustain any serious injuries.
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Insurance company took names
He’ll be cutting the grass for a LONG time.
Seems like he hit the wrong pedal.
Teens just don’t have adequate driving skills for some things yet.
Tombstone: Here lies Jake, who stepped on the gas instead of the brake
“Teens just don’t have adequate driving skills for some things yet”
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I personally know at least two sets of parents that have kids that were so reluctant to get a driver’s license they waited until they were in their 20s, and I hear that’s actually common nowadays....and learning to drive a standard shift is completely out of the question.
T would keep his ass off a lawnmower. If he is going to cut grass, I would make sure he used a push mower that was not powered. It is a good thing it happened on the dock. If that would have happened in traffic, he may have killed himself or someone else. Or a lot of someone else’s.
my kid was the exception. driving a manual on a family farm at 11 and grandpa’s twin stick detroit grain truck to the coop at 16. he hates automatics (calls them autotragicals) and had me hunt country wide for a 318 5 speed dakota truck (found one)
I think we just found a new driver for an Indian trucking company.
If he needs work, some of the Indian-owned trucking companies might be hiring.
I learned on a riding lawn mower before seven years of age.
I had the literally stand on the clutch.
My husband was driving a Ford Jubilee tractor at the age of 5, harrowing the fields on his family farm. He was also part of the hunting gang, taking his rifle to elementary school and propping it with the the others’ guns in the corner so they could all go hunting after school and bring home dinner.
Happens regularly at docks, thousands of blooper videos.
At 20 under the supervision of my dad I purchased my 1st vehicle from a dealership.....at the time not realizing my dad was teaching me several life lessons I negotiated and bought a brand new 1980 Toyota Carolla SR5.......I didn’t test drive it and didn’t notice it was a stick (SR5).
By the time I got it home 3 miles away, I knew how to shift.
Today, a standard shift is actually a theft deterant.
😏
Things were a lot different when I was a kid in the 50s. I have a picture of me pulling a seeder with a 200 Farmall when I was seven, and one running a bailer when I was 9. Now at the tender age of 77, I make more “errors” in judgement than I did back then.
Apologies — I wasn’t copying off your paper. I swear.
Lawn mower?
Kindergarten scissors maybe.
First real job I had was working at a gas-dock at Lake Berryessa. It was right nest to the boat ramp. Sunday afternoons were always entertaining. People drinking all day then one has to go get the trailer while the other learns how to get the boat on. I’ve seen cars and trucks go under water, boats fall off onto the ramp, spouses yell at each other many many times. If you’re bored, make a visit to your local boat ramp. Seriesly.
It doesn’t look like that in Hollywood films. The truck twists getting over the edge of the bulkhead. The roof of the cab is also crushed presumably from when it hit the water. That’s not a good advertisement for the safety of Ford pickups when they roll over in an accident. The kid is lucky not to have been injured and needs to learn how to drive.
Beat me to it.
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