Wednesday 21 August 2013

Driver survives after Vine video shows truck's plunge off Michigan highway


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“He was seat belted in and the airbags deployed,” Flint said Wednesday. “This guy is very fortunate.”

The truck launched off a median and landed in a creek bed.


Wild video shows the moment a pickup truck pulling a trailer vaulted off a highway in Michigan.

The driver — identified as 58-year-old Mark Moerland, of Kentwood — survived the terrifying plunge about 5:30 p.m. Friday.

Moerland was driving west on I-96 in Delhi Township, south of Lansing, when he suffered a medical condition.
Wild video shows the moment a pickup truck pulling a trailer vaulted off a highway in Michigan.The driver — identified as 58-year-old Mark Moerland, of Kentwood — survived the terrifying plunge about 5:30 p.m. Friday.
Moerland was driving west on I-96 in Delhi Township, south of Lansing, when he suffered a medical condition.
His pickup truck, carrying a rideable lawnmower, veered into a median and then sailed over — slamming about 20 feet down in a dry creek bed, Ingham County Sheriff’s Sgt. Matthew Flint told the Daily News.

“He was seat belted in and the airbags deployed,” Flint said Wednesday. “This guy is very fortunate.”

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