Drivers on Sunrise Highway in New York narrowly avoided disaster this week when an out of control car flew over four lanes of traffic and crash landed in the middle of the road.
The wild, gravity-defying scene occurred on Wednesday in Bayshore, Long Island. In a video posted to TikTok, you can see dashcam footage of a man driving westbound when a smoky and airborne vehicle zips past him overhead.
The car eventually lands on the eastbound side of the road, narrowly missing oncoming traffic.
“What the f–k was that?!,” says the man behind the wheel of the dashcam car.
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How did this happen?
We’ve got to be honest, this seems like something out of an Evil Knievel stunt or old television show. How did the driver of this 2012 Honda manage to do this?
According to reports, the 70-year-old man at the wheel suffered a seizure, which caused him to lose control of his car. Incredibly, the vehicle evaded all traffic on the service road parallel to the highway before blowing through the guardrail, flying over four lanes of traffic and avoiding any impact with other cars when it eventually landed.
“He had a medical episode causing him to lose control and go flying up the embankment on the service road, over both the westbound then eastbound lanes, and landed in the embankment down the eastbound side,” Dennison DeNatalie, a spokesman for the Bay Shore Fire Department, told the New York Post.
The man was taken to a local hospital for minor injuries and is expected to make a full recovery. No one else was injured in what can only be considered a minor miracle.
“All the police and emergency personnel were walking up to the trees [on the south side of the highway] in Brightwaters,” one witness told Greater Long Island. “I figured someone flipped over the guardrail.”
