At least he’ll remember where he parked it! Amazing moment driver plunges 40ft after crashing through car park barrier in Russia but escapes unharmed
- The Russian driver fell 40ft after crashing through the barrier
- His VW spun as it fell, and the front of the car took the full brunt
- Thankfully, the driver survived without any injuriesĀ
A Russian driver had a miraculous escape after his Volkswagen Touareg plunged 40ft from a multi-storey car park.
He was driving the SUV when it smashed through a flimsy barrier and fell to the road below.
A video caught the moment of the dramatic fall.
The VW did a corkscrew spin on the way down, with the front taking the full force of the strike with the ground.
It then righted itself on all four wheels.
The lucky driver – named as Evgeny Shamko, 40 – suffered no more than shock, said reports.
He was driving the SUV when it smashed through a flimsy barrier and fell to the road below
The VW did a corkscrew spin on the way down, with the front taking the full force of the strike with the ground
The lucky driver – named as Evgeny Shamko, 40 – suffered now more than shock, said reports
A check was being done for alcohol in the blood after a bottle was found in the crashed Volkswagen Touareg
A witness said: ‘The ambulance came but did not pick him up.
‘He was not injured.’
He was seen giving a statement to officers in a police car.
A check was being done for alcohol in the blood after a bottle was found in the crashed Volkswagen Touareg, said reports.
It comes after a UK court was told that senior US military officer understood to be the head of space policy for the US joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon caused a car collision that left two teenagers seriously injured under debris.Ā
Colonel Benjamin OakesĀ went on trial today at York Magistrates’ Court.
The officer, who hails from Harrogate,Ā Ā has denied two counts of causing injury by careless driving in North Yorkshire.Ā
Prosecutors told a district judge how Oakes was driving a white Vauxhall Astra outside Ashville College independent school in Harrogate on February 2 this year.
Louise Berry, prosecuting, said Oakes was edging out of a junction when he clipped a Ford pickup truck, causing that vehicle to swerve and spin.
The truck collided with a wall and two boys were buried under debris, she told the court.
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