This is a pretty amazing story. Essentially what happened was that a New Jersey family, headed for Cape May two weeks ago, drove across a drawbridge after paying the toll only to find it opening on them.
The father make a quick decision and decided to gun it over the opening bridge. They landed on the other side safely.
Watch the report on it below:
I so wish we had video of the encounter. What a badass move to just gun it like that.
Here’s more from the NY Post:
Terrance Naphys and his family were en route by car to Cape May earlier this month when they found themselves caught in a terrifying situation as they were crossing the Middle Thorofare Bridge, which connects Wildwood and Cape May.
Suddenly, the steel grate of the bridge started to open underneath them, rising between 3 and 6 feet in the air — and Naphys made a quick decision to gun it over the bridge.
“He accelerated, and of course then we landed with a big impact on the concrete on the side,” the man’s wife, Jackie Naphys, told CBS Philadelphia in an interview this week.
Terrance Naphys believes his risky behind-the-wheel maneuver saved his family’s life.
“I’m thankful we’re still here because I think if we went in the water or stayed on the bridge, we wouldn’t still be here, or we’d be seriously, seriously injured,” he told the news outlet.
“An employee for the Cape May County Bridge Commission stated that a large vessel was approaching the bridge and they had no contact with that vessel due to their radio being down,” State Police said, according to the news outlet.
According to troopers, a bridge employee in control of operating the steel grate may not have seen the Naphys family’s car going over the bridge due to sun glare.
Authorities have determined that the Cape May County Bridge Commission is to blame for the potentially deadly incident, according to CBS Philadelphia.
Consider this an open thread.