Dashcam Video Captures Car Plunging Off Overpass Onto California Highway

A dashboard camera video shows the dramatic moment a car plunged off a California overpass on Monday, hitting the highway below and critically injuring the driver.

The Sacramento Police Department said the crash occurred shortly before 1 p.m. Monday when a vehicle drove over the edge of an overpass and landed on northbound Interstate 5 near the offramp for West El Camino Avenue, in the Natomas area of Sacramento.

A dashboard camera video shared by motorist Kyman Jeung, who was traveling northbound on I-5, shows the car plunging onto the highway along with parts of a tree.

“It all just happened in slow motion. I saw a car falling, and tree parts falling. It was to assess the situation and figure out the least painful way to get through it. So I still had to roll through parts of the trees and whatnot, which was there’s no way around that,” Jeung told KCRA.

California Highway Patrol responded to the scene along with Sacramento Police, who announced road closures in the area. West El Camino Avenue between Gateway Oaks Drive and Azevedo Drive was closed for nearly two hours.

The driver was extricated from the wrecked vehicle and transported to a hospital in critical condition. According to police, the driver was the only person injured in the incident.