Horrific SUV crash in Orlando leaves car cut in HALF and driver dead
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Horrific SUV crash in Orlando leaves car cut in HALF and driver dead after it jumped curb, skimmed off building and crashed into pole
- The wreck took place at around 3:15 a.m. on Thursday, Orlando Police reported
- Two people were involved, with the only survivor being taken to a local hospital
- The car allegedly surged off a curb, skimmed off a building and crashed straight into a telephone pole, splitting it in half
- The impact of the crash was so severe that metal parts from the SUV flew into the air and shattered the window of a vacant nearby business, a witness said
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The driver of an SUV cut in half in Orlando, Florida was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning, while another person was left injured.
Footage of the crash shows a car cut in two pieces, as well as debris spread out on East Colonial Drive and Shine Avenue.
The incident took place at around 3:15 a.m., according to the Orlando Police. Two people were involved, with the only survivor being taken to a local hospital. There have been no updates on the living victim’s condition, as of Thursday evening.
The car allegedly surged off a curb, skimmed off a building and crashed straight into a telephone pole, splitting it in half, according to WESH.
No other vehicle is believed to have contributed to the crash. The identities of the vicitms have yet to be released.
DailyMail.com has contacted Orlando Police Department for comment.
One person was killed while another was injured in a car crash in which an SUV was split in two
Bill West, a construction worker with GDP Design and Construction, witnessed the wreck while refurbishing a vacant business nearby.
He said the impact of the crash was so severe that metal parts from the SUV flew into the air and shattered the window of the business that he was working on.
‘All of the sudden I see my window broke and they are trying to figure out what happened,’ he told Click Orlando.
It took investigators roughly six hours to clear the area and collect evidence.
It also took two tow truck to pick up the remaining parts of the SUV.
‘If it happened during the day, people could’ve been hurt in here,’ West said.
The SUV is believed to have hit a telephone poll after bouncing off a curve and skimmering a building. The condition of the surviving passenger has not been known
It took two tow trucks to clear the debris on Thursday morning before the area reopened
Police have not yet offered an explanation for the crash.
Both lanes of Colonial Road, also known as State Road 50, reopened around 9 a.m.
There were 35,766 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2020 in which 38,824 deaths occurred, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a non-profit organization that focuses on road safety.
This resulted in 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people and 1.34 deaths per 100 million miles traveled.
In Florida, 3,098 crashes were reported in 2020, accounting for 3,331 deaths.