Playa del Carmen, Q.R. — The driver of a car that was totaled in an afternoon highway accident was lucky to walk away. Several motorists stopped to help the driver after seeing the front of his car explode into pieces during a collision.
On Friday afternoon, the driver of the car slammed into the back of a stopped passenger van. The van made a sudden stop to pick up a passenger from outside a Riviera Maya hotel.
The driver of the car directly behind failed to stop. He hit the driver’s back end of the van, crushing in the front passenger side of his car. The strong impact left the front of the vehicle in pieces. Motorists who stopped to help were videoed kicking large pieces of car debris off the highway as they approached the accident scene.
Motorists were able to free the driver from behind the wheel of the crushed front end of his vehicle. He climbed out the driver’s side door appearing relatively unscathed.
National Guard Highways arrived to attend to the 3:00 p.m. scene that had rush hour traffic severely backed up. Two ambulances also arrived to transfer the driver of the car to hospital along with one person from the passenger van.
Both vehicles were heading toward Puerto Morelos at the time of the Friday afternoon accident.