Chronicle Disasters and accidents Car accident

It happened in Lowndes County, Georgia

Highway 84, the last flight of distraction

High speed, inattention, who knows. In the video shot by an officer's bodycam, the car can be seen hitting the ramp of a tow truck and jumping into the void, like in an action movie. The driver, 21, is injured but not life-threatening

01/06/2023

The facts date back to 24 May.

There is an accident on Highway 84, a four-lane freeway in Lowndes County, a U.S. state of Georgia.
The road agents arrive, a tow truck also arrives to pull up the cars involved, stops at the side of the road with the four arrows lit. But no one imagines what is going to happen and that will be recorded on the camera fixed on an officer's uniform.

A vehicle is launched at high speed into the lane where the tow truck is stationary with the ramp down.
A 21-year-old woman is driving: she does not notice anything, perhaps she is looking at her mobile phone, perhaps instead she is engaged in an overtaking that does not allow her to correct the direction. The sequence is impressive: the car, a Nissan, hits the ramp right - and jumps into the air, rising from the asphalt with a flight of almost 40 meters, and then falling back to the ground crashing into another car.

The woman, a resident of Florida, was hospitalized with minor injuries but is not life-threatening.