Driver's miraculous escape after concrete pole impales car
An SUV driver has miraculously survived after accidentally rear-ending a truck carrying utility poles, one of which impaled the entire length of the vehicle.
Images taken in the aftermath of the freak accident shows the white SUV “skewered” by the concrete pole, which was being delivered to a utility company on September 25.
The accident happened as the SUV owner was driving through a flyover in the county of Mengcheng in East China’s Anhui province about 5am.
The driver claims to have been blinded by high-beam lights on cars coming in the other direction, causing him to miss the lorry hauling the heavy and dangerous cargo right in front of him.
He rear-ended the lorry cargo and caused the utility poles to wreck his car. One of the poles entered his windscreen and travelled all the way from front to back, exiting his boot door and busting it open in the process.
Fortunately, the motorist was alone in the car at the time and miraculously avoided what could have been severe if not fatal injuries, reports said.
The car has since been freed from the utility pole and was towed to a local dealership, which will attempt to salvage it.
Mengcheng police did not say whether the truck’s cargo was being properly transported or whether the driver was being investigated for overloading.
The driver of a three-wheeled motorcycle wasn’t as lucky in July, when he was impaled by bamboo poles following a crash in central China.
