Truck driver survives 70-foot plunge off an icy roadway as freezing weather snarls traffic across Midwest
A driver survived a 70-foot plunge off of a roadway Saturday and a Wisconsin Department of Transportation traffic camera recorded the dramatic scene.
The incident is just one of many that have occurred across the Midwest where snow, sub-zero temperatures and freezing rain have created dangerous, icy roadway conditions.
More than 41 million people remain under winter weather alerts that stretch from Oklahoma to Cape Cod, according to CNN Meteorologist Michael Guy.
Icy weather creates dangerous road conditions
Deputies with the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) responded to the one-car crash at around 9:49 a.m. on Saturday in the westbound distress lane on Interstate 94, the sheriff’s office said in a series of tweets.
Shocking moment truck flips as it falls 70-feet over Wisconsin interchange ramp landing upright and the driver survives
A video captured the moment a truck flew off a ramp and plunged 70 feet onto a Wisconsin interstate
The driver lost control of a pickup truck on an elevated ramp and skidded over snow piled against the barrier wall before falling onto Interstate 94 on Saturday
Footage from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation shows the truck flip violently before landing upright on I-94
Incredibly, the driver survived and was conscious and breathing
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation traffic camera recorded the dramatic scene Saturday as the pickup truck skidded off an interchange ramp in Milwaukee and plunged onto the roadway below.
MILWAUKEE A driver is lucky to be alive after he skidded off an interchange ramp in Milwaukee and plunged 70 feet to the highway below.
ABC affiliate WISN-TV reports the crash happened Saturday morning on I-94 at the Zoo Interchange in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The crash was captured on Wisconsin Department of Transportation camera video that WISN obtained Monday.
According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff s Office, the pickup truck was traveling on I-94 when the driver skidded off the eastbound to the southbound ramp. The video appears to show the truck hitting a snowbank on the right shoulder seconds before the fall.