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Wild dashcam video shows an out-of-control car flying over at least four lanes of the busy Sunrise Highway in Long Island on Wednesday. Thankfully, and somewhat miraculously, the driver of the gravity-defying car suffered only minor injuries and no other cars were involved in the crash.
The car, a 2012 Honda, was being driven by a 70-year-old man who, according to officials, suffered a seizure behind the wheel. This led to the car leaving the road it was on, Pine Acres Boulevard, and then launching it up and over the Long Island highway. Pine Acres Boulevard has a 30 mph speed limit, which means that, according to Bay Shore Fire Chief John Ippolito Jr., the Honda had to be doing well over that speed in order to clear multiple lanes of traffic.
“To get the lift and to come up the embankment the way he did, there had to be a high rate of speed involved,” Ippolito told News 12 Long Island.
‘It looked like a meteor’
“He had a medical episode causing him to lose control and go flying up the embankment on the service road, over both the westbound then eastbound lanes, and landed in the embankment down the eastbound side,” Dennison DeNatalie, a spokesman for the Bay Shore Fire Department, told the New York Post.
The car, which blew right through a guardrail as it took off over the highway, ended up crashing upside down up against a row of trees. The driver, according to DeNatalie, is expected to make a full recovery.
@abcnews A driver's dashcam captured the wild moment a vehicle went flying over several lanes of traffic on the Sunrise Highway, one of the busiest freeways on Long Island. The driver of the airborne vehicle had reportedly suffered a seizure before losing control. Only minor injuries were reported.
The driver of the vehicle, Brandon Hyacinthe, whose dashcam recorded the Dukes of Hazzard-style jump can be heard on video listening to some Creedence Clearwater Revival then shouting, “What the f—?! What the f— was that?! Holy s—!” as the Honda went sailing over several lanes of highway.
“It looked like a meteor going across the highway. At first I didn’t know it was a car,” Hyacinthe told News 12 Long Island.