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Surveillance video from an Austin, Texas parking garage shows a car dropping out of the sky and crashing in an alley. |
Police in Austin, Texas have released surveillance video showing a car plunging seven stories from a downtown parking garage and striking another vehicle as it lands nose-first in an alley.
The video released one Thursday shows the car landing atop the back half of an SUV then rolling upside down onto the ground. Moments later, people run to help the driver escape.
Police say the July accident happened when the woman drove her BMW through retention wires on the seventh floor, hit a building across the street breaking a gas pipe, and plunged to the alley below.
It’s a miracle that neither the SUV’s driver or the BMW driver were killed, or seriously injured. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services officials said at the time that the BMW driver was treated at a hospital.
Last September, a sport utility vehicle plunged from the ninth floor of the same parking garage, also after crashing through a wire barrier.
Perhaps the parking garage owners should consider installing a more robust barrier than wire.