A driver miraculously escaped death when a large piece of scrap metal fell from a truck that lost control and overturned on a Florida highway and crushed his car.
A truck carrying the scrap was traveling westbound from the State Road 528 exit ramp onto Interstate 4 in Orange County Saturday morning when its driver lost control.
The truck struck the guardrail and flipped over, The Florida Highway Patrol said.
The scrap metal smashed in the roof of 36-year-old Jesus Armando Escobar's car on the driver's side.
He miraculously suffered only minor injuries.
Escobar's wife, Aricelli, told ABC News her husband is 'blessed to be alive'.
'He's a father to three small children and he's our miracle,' she said in a statement.
The truck driver Antonio Santiago Wharton, 33, of Kisimmee, suffered minor injuries.
He was ticketed for careless driving.
A truck carrying the scrap was traveling westbound from the State Road 528 exit ramp onto Interstate 4 in Orange County Saturday morning when its driver lost control.
The truck struck the guardrail and flipped over, The Florida Highway Patrol said.
“It basically dropped right on his van,” Sgt. Kim Montes, Highway Patrol spokeswoman, told the Daily News. “He never saw it coming.”
The scrap metal smashed in the roof of 36-year-old Jesus Armando Escobar's car on the driver's side.
He miraculously suffered only minor injuries.
Escobar's wife, Aricelli, told ABC News her husband is 'blessed to be alive'.
'He's a father to three small children and he's our miracle,' she said in a statement.
The truck driver Antonio Santiago Wharton, 33, of Kisimmee, suffered minor injuries.
He was ticketed for careless driving.
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Source: NY Daily News, Daily Mail
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