Dashcam video captures car crashing off Sacramento overpass onto freeway below
SACRAMENTO – A car came crashing off a city street in North Sacramento and onto Interstate 5 early Monday afternoon.
The scene was on the northbound side of the freeway at W. El Camino Avenue. Multiple lanes were closed but reopened a little before 3:30 p.m.
Exactly what led up to the car crashing is unclear, but the vehicle ended up completely flipped over onto its roof on the lefthand shoulder of northbound I-5.
Dashcam video captured by a driver on I-5 showed the car crashing off of the overpass and onto the freeway -- narrowly missing other vehicles below.
"Getting clear of that and mentally processing what occurred was pretty wild," said Kyman Jeung, whose dashcam captured the crash. "If any of us were a few seconds quicker, it really could have ended a lot worse than it did."
W. El Camino Avenue between Gateway Oaks and Azevedo drives was closed for some time but reopened later in the afternoon.
Sacramento police say the driver of the vehicle has been taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition.
Traffic was backing up on I-5 through Downtown Sacramento due to the crash investigation.
