A reporter for KTVU in San Francisco was lucky he didn’t need a new pair of Dockers after a collision at a busy intersection sent two cars barreling toward both him and his cameraman Tuesday morning. Hell, he was lucky to still have a pulse.
Alex Savidge was covering a train derailment in Alameda County when he came within inches of getting crushed by a Toyota Corolla driven by a woman who later had her license taken away by responding officers. And because the story was live, everybody back at the station got to watch the horror unfold in real time.
An emotional Savidge later returned to the air to let everyone know that both he and photographer Chip Vaughan were OK. He also credited Vaughan with saving his skin by yelling “get out of the way” just before the cars careened into the 7-Eleven parking lot where they were filming.
The most distraught person in all of this? You guessed it: The dude at the 24-second mark who made the bold choice to leave his mom’s house wearing a vest/shorts/black boots or high tops combo carrying what looks to be at least a nine-pound lunch. I mean, we’re not sure whose Altima he was floating in, but we’ll assume it wasn’t his since he hightailed it out of there before the cops arrived.
h/t KTVU
