A big rig sliced the roof off his car. But this motorist walked away without a scratch.
The roof of the car, a red Ford, was mangled and torn off after the vehicle ended up underneath a semi-truck trailer, the Sacramento Fire Department said in Monday in a tweet.
By Michael McGough | Sacramento Bee
A driver somehow avoided injuries after his car’s roof was sliced off in a Sunday afternoon collision with a big rig on Interstate 5 in Sacramento, fire officials said.
The roof of the car, a red Ford, was mangled and torn off after the vehicle ended up underneath a semi-truck trailer, the Sacramento Fire Department said Monday in a tweet.
A big
from this citizen who survived the roof being torn of their vehicle after making contact with a Semi-truck trailer & the vehicle pulled underneath and out the other side. SFD was glad there were no injuries. We advised this lucky driver to go buy some lottery tickets. pic.twitter.com/7LslPC6Agp
— Sacramento Fire (@SacFirePIO) June 10, 2019
The tweet included a photo of the driver, standing next to his crushed car giving a thumbs-up and wearing a big smile, and advised him to “go buy some lottery tickets.”
The crash happened on southbound I-5 north of the Interstate 80 interchange.
No one was injured, the fire department said.