i just thought, oh, boy, i m going to get a shot of the truck using this ramp. i just saw it all happening through the camera and i was just amazed that it went into the air like that. the big rig flies over the first mound and then rams straight into the second causing the truck to flip. its cargo bay rocketing skyward before crashing back down to the ground. i think the mounds on the gravel runaway truck ramp were maybe too high because the truck kind of like vaulted and hit the other mound and did a catapult-type deal. second later, the driver emerges. are you all right? i was amazed to see that the trucker was okay. after the truck flipped in the air like that. to see him walking around right after that accident just amazed me.
the driver s injuries are minor, but rob s story, major. back at the station i walked in the door and i had a big grin on my face and i said, you guys have to see this. the footage rob shot goes viral, garnering more than 1.5 million hits on youtube. the ramp has been redesigned to ensure truck driver safety. rob still marvels at how he wound up at the right place at the right time, even though it was the wrong place and the wrong time for the driver. the fact that i had my camera set up and pointed towards the ramp when the truck was coming down. i can t imagine i am speechless. the timing couldn t have been more perfect. you never think that anything like this is going to happen when you are going out on a shoot. coming up, a base jumper
i saw the blood on his head and i screamed if he was all right. are you all right? sir, you all right? other than a superficial head wound, the driver appears unharmed. the truck carrying a load of tire rims is demolished. two passing motorists stop to help as rob does what any tv news cameraman would, keep rolling. your eye s all screwed up. the guys in the video are people who were passing by. they are actually behind the truck and saw the accident also. they stopped and tried to call 911 and the funny story is, the in 911 center is probably less than half a mile from there and it s like right across the street and they couldn t get service from there. you got somebody on the phone? i called 911 and it s not connecting. i ve got no service here. eventually help arrives.
major hit with a heart stopping collision all caught on camera. david hugo on the right lane looked like his car moved out of the groove towards the right guard rail and tommy looked like he was going right down his lane and david s car actually darted across the track and kind of hit tommy adams car in the corner panel which sent tommy s car right. we knew that was bad. in the business of drag racing, everything could change in a fraction of a second. when david s car steers into tommy s, traveling at 150 miles per hour, that s all it takes for things to go seriously wrong. tommy s cut across the guard rails and when it went right off the track into the grass, there was a small hump right there when you went off the track and he hit it, he hit it just right. the car just started barrel rolling. it went up in there and just started flipping. it looked like it was going faster there than it was actually on the race track. kind of a strange thing to see a 3,000-pound car flipping.
about a perfect day for racing. tommy adams was the driver of the yellow car and david hugo was the driver of the lumina in the right lane. the drivers get the green light and the race starts as it is supposed to. when the cars took off down the track, everything looked so smooth. a relaxed run. both cars lobbed side to side, no unnecessary fishtailing and no stupid moves at all at that point in time. everything looked as it was going as normal for a drag racing. galan has been a friend and competitor of billion competitor of both drivers for years. having raced against them several times. he has great respect for their skills. tommy haas been racing since 69. he was a true racer. if the tracks were opened and there was something going on, he was there. david hugo was a smooth driver. they had a team that would do anything for you. as far as i know, tommy adams nor david hugo has ever, ever had an accident up until that day. both drivers flawless track records are about to