Distracted driving stays a serious subject within the US. Taking your eyes off the street for only a second can result in disaster, which occurred to at least one Oregon driver who launched their automobile off a 200-foot embankment, in keeping with the Oregon State Police.

Dashcam footage printed beneath captured the second when a 2023 Honda CR-V left the street, driving straight via a curve and into a brief runoff. The SUV didn’t cease, launching into the air and disappearing from the body with its nostril pointing down into the void.

The driver survived the crash, however Oregon State Police instructed Motor1 in an e-mail that the motive force sustained reasonable, non-life-threatening accidents. OSP posted on Facebook that the motive force extricated themselves from the Honda. Rescuers deployed a rope system to hold the motive force up the hill, the place an ambulance was ready to take the motive force to a neighborhood hospital for remedy.

The crash occurred on Monday, February 26, at 10:42 a.m. in Clackamas County on Highway 224 southeast of Portland. Motor1 requested the police report, nevertheless it hasn’t been accomplished but. The driver didn’t obtain a quotation for the accident.