Vehicle narrowly avoids slamming into driver on side of Ohio highway, dramatic video shows

A conveyance narrowly avoided slamming into a operator connected the broadside of an Ohio road Monday, video released by the authorities Department of Transportation shows.

The motorist was lasting on Columbus' I-670 adjacent to his vehicle, which was parallel to the roadworthy aft seemingly striking the road divider.

Video past shows a sedan careening toward the operator and his vehicle. The man, noticing the oncoming vehicle, hoists himself onto the road median astatine the past second. The oncoming conveyance past smashes into his SUV, the footage shows.

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Emergency crews assistance aft a car clang connected the broadside of Ohio's Highway 670. (Ohio Department of Transportation)

According to a 911 telephone obtained by section quality outlet ABC6, the SUV had a rider successful it astatine the clip of impact.

The rider told 911 operators that their conveyance had mislaid a tyre and deed the road divider earlier the crash.

"It’s disconnected to the broadside but we are close successful the turnstile, and it's truly worrying maine due to the fact that we’re going to get hit," the rider told operators, according to ABC6.

Vehicles thrust connected Interstate 670 adjacent the Cleveland Avenue span connected Tuesday, April 7, 2026, successful Columbus, Ohio. (USA Today Network via Reuters Connect)

Fox News Digital contacted the Ohio Department of Transportation for updates connected the conditions of the passengers involved.

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A section spokesperson highlighted the incidental arsenic a information lesson, noting that the lane the impacted conveyance was successful was closed and should not person had immoderate different cars driving successful it.

Ohio Department of Transportation Alexandria Outpost connected Aug. 1, 2026, successful Alexandria, Ohio. (USA Today Network via Reuters Connect)

"There volition beryllium a greenish arrow implicit it if it's opened, a reddish X if it is closed. In this case, it was an exigency shoulder, truthful the idiosyncratic who crashed was stopped connected the enarthrosis of the highway. They were doing the close thing. There should beryllium cipher driving successful that lane," Ohio Department of Transportation property caput Matt Bruning told reporters.

The exigency lane, Bruning explained to Fox News Digital, was a "SmartLane," a road diagnostic successful Ohio that allows the authorities to person the wide enarthrosis into a impermanent question lane arsenic needed. The SmartLane was closed astatine the clip of the crash.

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"Don't thrust successful a closed lane. If you are going to thrust connected the highway, let that other abstraction betwixt you and the conveyance successful beforehand of you truthful you person clip to respond and abstraction to respond if thing mightiness happen," Bruning concluded.