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Jeep driver survives after plunging off top of six-story parking garage!

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Wow...not sure If anyone posted this yet. Crazy pics of the Jeep.https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...jeep-off-top-of-six-story-parking-garage/amp/

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Driver Survives After Jeep Plunges Off 6th Floor of Santa Monica Parking Structure

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

KTLA story on this:
https://ktla.com/2020/02/23/driver-...-6th-floor-of-santa-monica-parking-structure/

Two people managed to jump out before a Jeep plummeted from the top level of a six-story parking structure in Santa Monica on Sunday, while the driver remained inside the vehicle, landed against a building across the street and survived, officials said.

The incident happened just after midnight at a parking structure on 1571 Second Street, two blocks away from the Santa Monica Pier, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.

Firefighters responded to the scene to find a Jeep propped against a building and a McDonald's sign on the northwest corner of Second Street and Colorado Boulevard.

Crews worked on stabilizing the vehicle and extricating the lone person inside, the Santa Monica Fire Department said.

Police said the driver, a 20-year-old Twentynine Palms man, was "conscious, suffering minor injuries, and speaking with officers when they arrived." But paramedics ultimately transported that patient to a trauma center in critical condition, according to the Fire Department.

The Jeep appeared to have broken through the wire fence on the sixth level of the parking structure, and the hood apparently crumpled from the impact.

Two other people who had been inside the Jeep managed to "jump out" before the car plunged off the garage, according to the Fire Department.

It's unclear why the 20-year-old drove his vehicle off the structure, according to police. Investigators said they have not yet determined if he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol since the man was taken to the hospital.

There were no other injuries reported.

City officials were assessing the structural integrity of the parking structure.
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Holy crap, looks like it took a nose dive off the top floor then somersaulted on to the mcdonalds building
I'm gonna say medical issue or dui
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Medical issue, DUI... or too much Grand Theft Auto. That’s absolutely insane
 

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Medical issue, DUI... or too much Grand Theft Auto. That’s absolutely insane
I was thinking the same. He had a marathon weekend full of GTA, got hungry, drove to McDonalds to get some food, meanwhile reality was still a blurr.......
 

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I saw the same photos, and it said there were two people involved, and they jumped out, before it fell, not being injured.

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The article I read said that there were two OTHER people in the vehicle that exited before it went over. And SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE, they have issued a warrant for a blood sample. And being 20 years old from 29 palms makes me wonder if he isn't from the MC base.
 

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Holy crap, looks like it took a nose dive off the top floor then somersaulted on to the mcdonalds building
I'm gonna say medical issue or dui
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I don’t know physics well but.......
I find it hard to believe that the Jeep would have fallen and rolled across 4 lanes of road and was stopped in its roll by the building unless there was a significant amount of speed involved in the parking garage before going over the edge...... it seems to me that if one “bumped over the edge” of the garage, the Jeep would fall nearly straight down and roll onto its top or side or something.
 

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Yeah something’s fishy probably a fish sandwich he landed on:giggle:
 

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A all new meaning to the term Drive-Through McDonalds
 

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He heard that the Shamrock McFlurry was back for a limited time

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