Video has surfaced of a heart-stopping collision earlier this week in which a man narrowly avoided being ploughed down by an out-of-control vehicle.
The crash happened at around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday in a security company parking lot just west of Calgary Trail near 56 Avenue.
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The short security camera video shows a man walking across the parking lot towards Calgary Trail. A large, black SUV veers right, heading towards the parking lot. The vehicle hits the curb and is launched into the air, clipping the man as it flips and crashes on its roof, also hitting seven other vehicles.
Amazingly, the man – who reportedly works in the area – walked away with just a broken arm. The driver was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
An accident reconstruction engineer agrees the outcome could have been much worse.
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“Had he been one or two steps forward, he would have been killed instantly,” Jim Graham said. “A 4,000- to 6,000-pound SUV flying through the air hitting a pedestrian in the upper body or head, it’s fatal.
“He was lucky. Another step forward and he would have been dead for sure… Had he been one or two steps back, it would have been a near miss.
“I couldn’t really tell if he lifted up his arm,” he added. “My gut is that he probably raised his arm in a self-defence mechanism. Maybe that’s what hit his arm, that’s what broke his arm.”
Graham said crash data is available and can be downloaded in newer vehicles.
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Police said an investigation was ongoing but they believe the driver suffered a medical episode at the time of the collision.
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