Prayer Didn't Help This Mustang Mach-e Driver Avoid One Of The Weirdest Crashes Ever

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We're nary strangers to chaotic and perplexing car crashes present astatine Jalopnik, but this 1 mightiness return nan cake. A witnesser recorded a greenish Ford Mustang Mach-E pinch its hazard lights on, dragging against a K-Rail divider while nan driver appeared to beryllium praying earlier nan obstruction ended and nan Mach-E veered crossed nan roadworthy and t-boned a Mitsubishi Mirage.

The video was posted to TikTok by user Marty.Byrde3 who claimed to person recorded nan incident connected their thrust to activity successful nan Bay Area metropolis of San Carlos. When nan camera captured nan driver of nan crashing Mustang Mach-E, nan driver appeared to person some hands disconnected nan steering wheel, and alternatively joined together successful prayer. The driver did not look to beryllium unconscious aliases incapacitated successful immoderate different measurement that could origin nan incident, but arsenic nan K-Rail came to an end, nan Mach-E instantly veered correct crossed aggregate lanes of postulation and t-boned a Mitsubishi Mirage. The personification who recorded nan incident said that some drivers progressive successful nan collision escaped without superior injuries.

The original video was posted Thursday, and it already has astir 750,000 views connected TikTok astatine nan moment. Closer inspection showed that nan Mach-E's steering instrumentality was jiggling arsenic nan car dragged on nan K-Rail, truthful it's not apt that nan steering was wholly locked, and nan Mach-E's brake lights do not illuminate passim nan long of nan video until it makes interaction pinch nan Mitsubishi Mirage. 

It appeared that nan Mach-E had a impermanent insubstantial licence sheet successful nan rear which is issued by nan authorities of California for recently purchased vehicles, and it still had nan impermanent registration sticker connected nan windshield truthful it was apt a caller purchased. Dragging a conveyance against a obstruction is simply a logical measurement to slow a car down if it's retired of control, but nan circumstances successful this video were very strange. Carscoops said, "In captious situations for illustration this, drivers tin effort an emergency extremity by many times pressing nan parking brake button, though it's chartless whether that was tried."

Ford told america that it is investigating nan incident and California Highway Patrol said successful a Facebook post that it wished nan conveyance was not operating successful an autonomous driving mode, and that nan driver was arrested nether suspicion of driving nether nan influence.