The Blues Brothers would be proud.
Remember the famous scene in The Blues Brothers when the Dodge Monaco Bluesmobile jumps over a raising drawbridge in Chicago? One daredevil driver recently tried to recreate the famous stunt in a second-generation Hyundai Santa Fe. Crazy CCTV footage shows the Santa Fe smash through the barriers of a drawbridge crossing in Florida at high speed.
Unfazed by the impact, the determined driver floors it and jumps over the drawbridge as it starts to rise. The Santa Fe briefly catches air before landing on the other side. Presumably, Santa Fe then demolishes the opposite barriers on the other side of the bridge.
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Florida police are trying to identify the driver of a vehicle that was captured on video as it appeared to jump a rising drawbridge earlier this week.
Daytona Beach police officers said that at about 8 a.m. Monday, a driver broke through a traffic arm before jumping the Main Street Bridge that crosses over the Halifax River, FOX 35 reported.
It was apparently not the first time someone was caught on camera pulling the stunt, according to police. During Bike Week last month, a biker jumped a motorcycle over the gap in the rising Main Street Bridge.
Police try to identify driver accused of jumping Daytona Beach drawbridge
Police in Daytona Beach say another driver was caught on camera jumping a drawbridge.
LAKE MARY, Fla. - Daytona Beach police officers are trying to identify a driver accused of jumping a rising drawbridge.
Investigators said the driver of a grey crossover vehicle broke a traffic arm before jumping the Main Street Bridge that crosses over the Halifax River. Police said it happened just before 8 o’clock Monday morning.
According to the Daytona Beach Police Department, it’s not the first time a vehicle was recorded jumping this same bridge as it was rising. Last month, a biker drove a motorcycle over the bridge during the start of Bike Week.
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The SUV s windshield is smashed as it careens through the barrier, but the car keeps on going.
Traveling at a high rate of speed, the vehicle briefly becomes airborne as it jumps over a widening gap in the drawbridge spanning Halifax River.
The SUV lands safely on the other side and drives off into the sunrise.
The Daytona Beach police said both traffic arms had to be replaced in the wake of the incident, reported WESH2.
The speeding SUV becomes airborne as it jumps over the widening gap in the bridge as it goes up
Officials say it is both highly dangerous and illegal crossing the bridge while it is going up
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