Traffic & Transit
Driver Goes Through Barrier – And Straight Into Wet Cement
This driver found himself in quite a sticky situation.
CLEVELAND, OH – Try not to laugh. It's really not funny: A man apparently wasn't paying close enough attention as he drove along Euclid Avenue and went straight into a patch of freshly poured concrete. The mid-afternoon spectacle drew quite a crowd of onlookers to the corner of Euclid and East 9th Street on Thursday afternoon.
Cleveland Police said the driver went through a barricade and into the cement.
"I was driving and did not realize there was freshly poured concrete there," the unidentified driver told WOIO-TV in an interview. The driver laughs and apologizes for slowing down progress on the work.
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Video posted by WOIO shows street crews digging the car from the wet cement and eventually pulling the car from the sticky mess. Onlookers applauded as the car was freed.
This ding dong wasn’t paying attention and drove right into fresh concrete on Euclid. pic.twitter.com/fqmQHhRMB3
— Kate Warren (@KateWarrenCLE) May 24, 2018
Beyond the driver's ego being bruised, no one was injured the incident.
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Image courtesy of Kate Warren via Twitter
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