i saw the blood on his head and i screamed if he was all right. are you all right? sir, are you all right? other than a superficial head wound, the driver appears unharmed. that sucked. 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 the 911 center is probably less than half a mile from there and it s like right across the street and they couldn t get
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 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.
service from there. you got somebody on the phone? i called 911 and it s not connecting. eventually help arrives. 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. jaws were dropped. 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
david hugo was also a very professional driver, 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 take a major hit with a heart-stopping collision on 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 raising, everything can change in the 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. when it went right and 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
the care flight helicopter comes along and that obviously means it s about as bad as it can get. the care flight helicopter rushes tommy to the closest trauma center. david, the driver who hit him, is uninjured and devastated about his friend. he was probably one of the most upset people there. i guess he felt like he might have been the cause of it or whatever. it actually, emotionally, scarred him to the point where he really lost the excitement and didn t want to get back in a race car again. the horrible accident leaves spectators in shock and leads to a lot of second guessing and finger pointing among racing pros. it would be easy to say one of the drivers drove over his head or something. we didn t see anything unordinary. it could have been parts failure. it could have been something got underneath the tire. we really don t know, it happened so quick and so fast that it s hard to say exactly what happened. the cause of the crash was never determined. as for tommy, hi