People Keep Jumping Their Cars over This Drawbridge in Florida
A Hyundai Santa Fe is the latest vehicle to go all Blues Brothers on the Main Street Bridge in Daytona Beach. Car and Driver
You know how when there s a live car chase on TV, helicopter following overhead, the would-be escapee is never driving a fast car? It s always a clapped-out Grand Caravan or an old Ford Aspire that s already on a space-saver spare.
Well, it seems that when you decide to jump a drawbridge, the same rules apply: If you re the type of person to smash through a barrier arm and try to make it to the opposite side of a drawbridge, you probably don t have the impulse control and life skills that would lead to Ram TRX ownership. But like they say, you jump the bridge with the car you have, not the car you want. And, in the case of the Main Street bridge in Daytona Beach, Florida, that car is a old Hyundai Santa Fe.
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We ve all thought about it. No one who has sat at a drawbridge, watching the spans go up into a vague ramp shape, can claim they haven t imagined jumping it.
But there s something self-selecting in the Daytona Beach crowds that causes people to keep going through with it. An SUV drove through the bridge s traffic arms on Monday to go full
Dukes of Hazard on the Main Street Bridge A video cobbled together from surveillance footage by WESH shows the vehicle shattering its windshield as it barreled through the traffic arms to jump over the raising bridge. Two of the bridges arms had to be replaced and the NBC affiliate reports that police believe they ve identified the driver.