Car Falls From Overpass Onto Highway, Driver Miraculously Survives

American highways are dangerous enough places without cars falling on them from the sky. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what some drivers experienced in Sacramento, California on Monday, February 17. Somehow, despite falling multiple stories, turning end over end, and landing on their roof, the driver survived and is stable.

“It all just happened in slow motion. I saw a car falling, and tree parts falling. It was to assess the situation and figure out the least painful way to get through it. So I still had to roll through parts of the trees and whatnot, which was there’s no way around that,” said Kyman Jeung, the person who captured the crash on dashcam.

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That’s right, in addition to what looks like a small or midsize sedan, trees uprooted by the car in question fell on the highway too. Perhaps the scariest part of the entire ordeal is that one driver in a Honda Civic avoided catastrophe by a very slim margin. The car from the overpass hits the highway and rolls away just before the Civic arrives at the same spot. In fact, the two were so close that the Civic did hit some of the fallen foliage.

“I’m glad it turned out better than it really could have possibly been. It could have been a lot worse,” Jeung told KCRA. “That car really could have landed on any of us that were passing at the time. The two drivers that were on my left were so much closer. I feel like those are the two lottery winners.”

Jeung and a person driving a Toyota SUV both navigated through the tree debris but that was the worst of it. Police didn’t say exactly what happened but did confirm that the driver, though in critical condition, was stable. One person claimed to witness the accident, citing speed as a factor, but we could not confirm the legitimacy of that report.

Screenshot: KCRA3 / YouTube