Florida driver avoids serious injury in fiery car crash

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A operator successful West Palm Beach survived a violent car crash without superior injuries precocious past month.

The West Palm Beach Police Department posted a video of the clang connected its Facebook leafage Thursday.

The bureau released small accusation related to the incident.

The video, which has a timestamp of Wednesday astatine 1:51 a.m., shows a car driving accelerated connected Flagler Drive adjacent Eighth Street.

Video shows that aggregate constabulary vehicles were parked on the roadworthy connected the other broadside of the fast-moving car.

As the car passed officers, it smashed head-on into a airy rod and burst into flames.

"All of a sudden, I perceive a boom, and I looked retired of my window," witnesser John Piscr said.

Violent clang caught connected camera successful West Palm Beach

Piscr looked retired his model from a gathering crossed the thoroughfare from the crash.

"And each of a abrupt I spot a fire, I spot bull cars, I spot the cops travel up with occurrence extinguishers to enactment retired the occurrence and resistance the operator retired of the car," helium said.

Piscr said aft surviving successful the gathering for 5 years, helium often sees radical traveling accelerated on Flagler Drive and each excessively often crashing.

"People person deed different airy poles down here. People conscionable alert done the curve, and they suffer control. So it's happened before," helium said.

The video shows officers responding to the wreck and aboriginal dragging the driver, whose sanction was not released, distant from the crash.

"Just shocked, amazed, and acknowledgment to God that everyone was OK, particularly my officers due to the fact that they were close there. In 1 fell swoop, I could've been astatine a nonaccomplishment of 4 officers," adjunct main of constabulary Tameca West said.

West said the video is simply a teachable moment.

"Thankfully everyone is fine. This conveyance missed respective officers who were lasting nearby!" the section posted connected its Facebook leafage with the video.

This communicative was primitively published by Scott Sutton and Todd Wilson connected Scripps presumption WPTV successful West Plam Beach, Florida.