State Police: Drunken pickup driver flies off upper deck, lands on lower deck
An East Boston man faces OUI charges after a crash in which he somehow managed to avoid plummeting to the ground early Sunday.
According to State Police, Vannak Sao, 33, was heading north on I-93 around 6:25 a.m. on Sunday when he:
Crashed through a light pole, a sign for the exit, and several lengths of chain link fence, launching off the upper deck of the expressway and [came] to rest on the lower deck, the southbound side of Route 93. The 2006 Toyota Tacoma was propelled forward and off the upper deck after striking a barrier structure known as an attenuator, which divides the main highway from the off ramp to Route 1.
Boston and Somerville firefighters managed to get him out of the remains of his truck and he was transported to Mass. General, State Police say. He will be summonsed to court on charges of OUI and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
Innocent, etc.
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Finally.
Finally.
I had to wonder if it would take a Boston based remake of The Blues Brothers for someone to use the launch ramp.
General Lee
Man, I haven't heard the
Man, I haven't heard the terms "upper deck" and "lower deck" applied to transportation in years.
WBZ
Traffic on the 3's uses "Lower Deck" pretty often.
I guess I just zone out when
I guess I just zone out when traffic comes on the radio.
RIP central arty
I still hear those terms used
I still hear those terms used regularly for the double-decker stretch of 93 north of the Zakim.
How...
I'm still trying to imagine how this is even possible. Aren't the upper and lower decks in vertical alignment with each other?
Possibly an even better question: did the guy even realize what happened to him, or was he too drunk?
You can totally see how this
You can totally see how this might happen looking at google satellite view
Still completely nuts. And amazing more people were not hurt.
Lower Deck
Sounds like this happened right at the off-ramp to Rt1/Tobin bridge. At the point the highway is still transitioning from side-by-side (over the Zakim Bridge) to upper/lower deck ( Soverville ) arrangements.
1) The person is lucky to have survived.
2) Thank God, no innocent victim on the Southbound lower deck had a pickup truck land on their roof!
Or, at what point did he wake
Or, at what point did he wake up?
Im sure after his $100 ticket
Im sure after his $100 ticket he will think twice about drinking and driving again.
Yeah
Because "thought" obviously had a lot to do with it.
He'll be legally behind the
He'll be legally behind the wheel again in no time because America is so dumb when it comes to cars.
Some video
A Vine version.
To be that next car back...
You suddenly have to wonder if you just saw the coolest thing ever...or someone die.
All I know is that I'd have
All I know is that I'd have to change my pants if I witnessed that in person. Glad no one was killed....
Left or right...
left or right, left or right, leftorright, LEFTORRIGHT!
Here is the video
Pretty crazy...
http://www.wcvb.com/news/driver-survives-crash-from-i93-to-highway-below...
Welp
I guess those attenuators do a lot of good.
If you look closely at the video
you can see that the driver only grazed the left side of the attenuator, as opposed to hitting it head on. Not sure how fast they were going, but it's not surprising the attenuator didn't stop the truck.
Did the snow bank help the
Did the snow bank help the truck climb over the barrier?
TAKE his LICENSE away!! He
TAKE his LICENSE away!! He shouldn't be on the road EVER again
Gotta love the 2nd driver in the lower deck
First driver sees hazard early, puts hazards on and brakes.
Next guy passes first driver at high rate of speed and then tries to drive around wreck.
Real rush to let somewhere at 6am Sunday morning.