The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. on Hackberry Road.(from KSAT-12)
According to police, the driver was going more than 90 mphour before he reached a dead end at Hackberry and Interstate 35.
Officers said that's when the car hit the curb, flew over the center median of the interstate, a guardrail, three lanes of traffic and an access road.
The car finally came to a stop after it hit an embankment and rolled several times, police said.
I'm glad no one else was hurt, and I certainly hope those two pull through and straighten out their lives. And then I hope they apply for jobs as stunt drivers.
Take a look at this.
That's IH-35, and the orange marked bits are where Hackberry Street dead-ends onto the access road of the highway. (Yes, that's a school bus on the bottom access road, there.)
Now picture a car hitting that embankment so hard it clears the lanes of traffic.
Wow. Ninety miles an hour will do that, I suppose.
I guess this had to have started farther west than we live, 'cause I didn't hear it. I've been awoken by street races before, though.
ReplyDeleteAnd I wonder if it's a coincidence that the neighbors haven't had their usual visitors today.
I wish I could've seen that from a safe distance.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine being one of the few people traveling down the highway at that time of night and seeing a car sailing overhead?
ReplyDeleteIt might be enough to make one change their sobriety status.
It might be enough to make one change their sobriety status.
ReplyDeleteI would imagine that by the time that maneuver was complete, and the car came to a stop on the other side of the highway, sobriety had ensued!