- The Versa can be seen swerving through traffic right before it crashed.
- The driver should be grateful their car didn’t roll over the side of the bridge.
- Initially he tried walking away, but eventually returned to the scene.
Swerving aggressively through traffic is a bad idea, even more so when you’re in a narrow, two-lane road, where the chances of causing an accident if something goes wrong are higher. Dashcam footage has captured just that – the driver of a Nissan Versa crashing and flipping the sedan on a bridge in Pittsburgh on Thursday morning. Despite the severity of the crash, the driver seemed to have escaped without any serious injuries.
The video shows the black Versa cruising past the cammer in the center of the bridge. The driver then changes lanes in front of a white van in an apparent attempt to cut through traffic. For a couple of seconds, the car is blocked from view, and when it comes back into sight, it can be seen sliding to the left and across the road, striking the central crash barrier.
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It’s unclear why the driver of the Versa lost control during the lane change, but speed may have been a factor. Regardless, the impact with the barrier caused the car to flip and roll onto its side before screeching to a halt several hundred feet down the road.
Several motorists pulled over after the accident. Curiously, the driver of the wrecked Versa can be seen quickly getting out of the car and briskly walking away from the wreckage, despite a witness trying to prevent them from leaving. It’s unclear if the driver was simply in shock or if he contemplated leaving the scene. Whatever the case may be, he soon returned to the car and can be seen walking around the smashed Nissan, seemingly without any injuries. The car likely would have continued sliding on its roof if it hadn’t hit the impact attenuator on the bridge.
In all likelihood, the damage done to the car means it won’t return to the roads any time soon, if at all. Given the driver’s behavior, he should probably take a break from getting behind the wheel, too.