A Florida man is thanking his lucky stars after he somehow survived his vehicle being crushed by a heavy industrial pipe that fell off a truck Saturday morning.
Jesus Armando Escobar, 36, was driving on the Interstate 4 highway, Florida Today reports, when a truck on the overpass above him hit a guardrail and overturned, causing a huge metal pipe to tumble out and land squarely on the roof of Escobar’s van – on the driver’s side.
Miraculously, he walked away with only minor injuries.
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“I’ve seen crushed cars before but nothing in this kind of circumstance, where they were up on an upper bridge and it rolled out of a container and crushed a car,” Theodore Olson with Orlando Towing told WFTV-9.
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“I thought it was a fatality to be honest with you.”
The driver of the truck also sustained minor injuries, and was ticketed for careless driving.
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