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Vehicle in Ohio caught on camera driving in reverse on highway

Click to play video: 'Video captures vehicle driving backwards on Ohio highway'
Video captures vehicle driving backwards on Ohio highway
WATCH: Traffic cameras caught a driver reversing their vehicle on a busy Ohio highway on Tuesday. The Department of Transportation says it believes the driver may have had transmission issues – Jun 6, 2018

Traffic cameras caught a driver in Ohio making their way backwards on a busy highway on Tuesday.

The white sport-utility vehicle could be seen on camera on the US-33 highway first making its way up an entrance ramp before it pulls onto the side of the road to avoid other vehicles going the opposite direction.

According to a timecode on the video, it’s believed to have occurred around 6:45 a.m.

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From there, the vehicle exits onto Gender Road, NBC News affiliate KXAN reports, before making a backwards U-turn to go with the flow of traffic while still in reverse, going through two traffic lights.

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It then turns into a Kroger parking lot before finally coming to a rest.

The video, posted to Facebook by Ohio’s Department of Transportation, included a message at the beginning stating “what NOT to do in traffic,” and ending with, “Please, don’t be that driver.”

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It’s not known at this time what caused the driver to make their way to the parking lot and off a highway in reverse, but department officials believe the vehicle may have had transmission issues.

The department, in a tweet that also included the video, advised people to “pull safely to the side of the road and call for assistance” if their vehicle isn’t running properly.

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According to authorities, no one was injured.

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