Round 6 PM Friday evening, a automobile touring down Interstate 93 southbound close to the Zakim Bridge in Boston went airborne, touchdown on the ramp that connects Route 1 visitors from the Tobin Bridge to Interstate 93.

In keeping with Massachusetts State Police, the automobile, which seems to be a Toyota 86, (or a Scion FR-S) struck a guardrail on I-93 southbound, flipped over, and landed roughly 25 toes under onto the Leverett Connector Ramp. A digicam captured the horrifying ordeal of the automobile going off the busy bridge, which Massachusetts State Police had been nonetheless investigating Friday evening, in its entirety.

The driving force, a 19-year-old man from Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was standing exterior the automobile when police arrived, and he was described as  being acutely aware and alert. He was subsequently taken to close by Massachusetts Basic Hospital for accidents that had been doubtlessly severe. As of Saturday, police had no info on the reason for the crash and no updates on the motive force’s situation.

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Harm to the automobile, as seen in aerial footage of the crash’s aftermath, was extensive, and following the incident, visitors on the Leverett Connector Ramp was decreased to a single lane whereas authorities eliminated the car.

In keeping with 2015 statistics from the U.S. Division of Transportation, about 53,000 autos crossed the Zakim Bridge every single day, in order that lane closure in all probability had a major influence on fairly a number of folks’s commute.

Apparently sufficient, an analogous accident occurred about 5 years in the past, during which a pickup truck careened off the Zakim bridge onto a connecting ramp down under, though that was confirmed to be a results of driving underneath the affect.