{"id":82962,"date":"2023-12-12T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=82962"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:18:50","slug":"driver-safe-after-40ft-fall-following-crash-through-carpark-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/driver-safe-after-40ft-fall-following-crash-through-carpark-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver safe after 40ft fall following crash through carpark barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Russian driver had a miraculous escape after his Volkswagen Touareg plunged 40ft from a multi-storey car park.<\/p>\n
He was driving the SUV when it smashed through a flimsy barrier and fell to the road below.<\/p>\n
A video caught the moment of the dramatic fall.<\/p>\n
The VW did a corkscrew spin on the way down, with the front taking the full force of the strike with the ground.<\/p>\n
It then righted itself on all four wheels.<\/p>\n
The lucky driver – named as Evgeny Shamko, 40 – suffered no more than shock, said reports.<\/p>\n
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He was driving the SUV when it smashed through a flimsy barrier and fell to the road below<\/p>\n
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The VW did a corkscrew spin on the way down, with the front taking the full force of the strike with the ground<\/p>\n
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The lucky driver – named as Evgeny Shamko, 40 – suffered now more than shock, said reports<\/p>\n
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A check was being done for alcohol in the blood after a bottle was found in the crashed Volkswagen Touareg<\/p>\n
A witness said: ‘The ambulance came but did not pick him up.<\/p>\n
‘He was not injured.’<\/p>\n
He was seen giving a statement to officers in a police car.<\/p>\n
A check was being done for alcohol in the blood after a bottle was found in the crashed Volkswagen Touareg, said reports.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colonel Benjamin Oakes\u00a0went on trial today at York Magistrates’ Court.<\/p>\n
The officer, who hails from Harrogate,\u00a0\u00a0has denied two counts of causing injury by careless driving in North Yorkshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The truck collided with a wall and two boys were buried under debris, she told the court.<\/p>\n