This Week in “Close Calls”
It seems like every year we talk about several “close call” stories, but this week the words close call seem to be the theme…
First lets start in Switzerland!, where a tourist was just trying to enjoy the view from above when everything went wrong….
The hang gliding instructor forgot to strap the man in! Somehow he hung on for two minutes and 14 seconds until they landed. But he tore his left bicep, broke his right wrist, and need a titanium plate and four screws.
Second we move to our great state of Michigan and a case of plow vs. SUV…
West Michigan was hit with the first big snow storm of the winter which had drivers being cautious on the roads. This video shows, you can’t prepare for everything!
Kevin Hoffer was driving underneath an overpass when a plow dumped snow and ice on his SUV’s windshield.
“Soon as it hit the windshield, the windshield just shattered,” Hoffer told 24 Hour News 8.
He was merging onto northbound US-131 from Stadium Drive Monday when it happened. His dashcam video captured it all in real time.
“I saw a plow coming,” he said. “Thought nothing of it.”The snowplow was eastbound on the Michigan Avenue overpass.“I didn’t expect (the snow) to hit,” he explained. “I expected to actually get past it or for it to come down before it got to me.”