Car launched into air after driving up empty vehicle hauler ramp

The Independent

Watch the moment The incident took place on 8 Mile near Livernois in Detroit, right in front of two autobody shops. It was caught on video.

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00:00 the car. It's a big bang.

00:02 It's a big bang. It's a big

00:04 bang. It's a big bang. We've

00:05 never seen anything like this.

00:07 Watch as this Chevy Impala

00:09 switches to the right lane just

00:11 in time to use an empty car

00:13 hauler as a ramp, launching the

00:15 car into a light pole throughout

00:16 the 20 years. We've never seen

00:17 anything like this. It happened

00:19 at 11 o'clock Monday morning on

00:21 eight mile near Livernois in

00:23 front of Palace Auto and a one

00:25 transmission Ali Shammy co owns

00:27 Palace Auto. We heard a big

00:28 bang. It's a big bang. It's a

00:31 big bang. It's a big bang. It's

00:33 a big bang. Look at this pole

00:35 over here somehow, despite

00:37 flipping his car midair and

00:39 taking out the pole, Shammy says

00:41 the driver of that Impala was

00:43 not seriously hurt. Yep He got

00:44 up and he walked and we even

00:45 tried to trace trade his car in.

00:47 Eventually, according to

00:48 witnesses, the driver was taken

00:49 via ambulance and his condition

00:52 at this time is unknown. It's

00:54 also unclear what caused the

00:55 crash in the first place. I

00:57 don't know. I don't know. I

00:59 don't know. I don't know. I

01:00 don't know. I don't know. I

01:02 don't know. A car like this

01:03 can't fit into the tight lots of

01:06 the businesses on eight mile.

01:07 So they park on the street. We

01:09 get about five car five trucks

01:11 a week loading unloading cars.

01:14 They usually park out here on

01:15 eight mile. We've never seen

01:17 anything like this aside from a

01:18 missing light pole and some

01:19 tire tracks, you would hardly

01:22 know a crash here even occurred.

01:23 Thankfully no one else was

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