A man who failed to stop when pulling into a rooftop spot of a
nine-storey parking garage in Texas rammed through protection wires and avoided
a deadly fall when one wire wrapped around an axle, leaving the car dangling on
the building's side on Friday
.
The 24-year-old man, who was not identified by police, was pulled to
safety back into the car garage.
He said he was unable to stop the vehicle that went off the top of the
building and flipped over until it was caught by a wire, police said.
Firefighters lower a car from a nine-storey parking lot after the driver
broke through protective wires while parking on the roof and the vehicle
avoided crashing to the ground when one of the wires attached itself to the
axle.
“The driver was (miraculously) able to climb out of the sunroof and make
his way safely back into the garage,” the Austin Fire Department wrote on its
Facebook page.
The man was not injured.
“I have a strong feeling the driver is going to have a great appreciation
of what it means to be alive from this point forward,” said James Davis, 29, a
cellphone software developer who was one of about 100 people watching the car
dangling.
The car was eventually lowered to street level by firefighters who used a
wiring system to slowly move it.
“From what we understand, the driver accidentally hit the gas instead of
the brake,” the department said.
Source: mirror.co.uk
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