A driver crashed into an AT&T employee working behind his truck Wednesday in San Diego County, reportedly severing both of his legs, witnesses said.
The violent crash occurred shortly before 11 a.m. when Chula Vista police said a 28-year-old male driver headed westbound on C Street smashed into the parked pickup truck at Date Avenue.
The employee was standing behind the company vehicle when the red sedan smashed into him and the truck, dragging him down the street, according to witnesses.
“[The car] hit him so severely that it, I believe, dragged him down the street and severed his legs,” resident Christina Rodriguez told KSWB-TV.
Surveillance video of the crash showed the victim standing behind that pickup truck, talking with his back turned to the speeding vehicle that was approaching, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Accident investigators said the man was trapped, pinned beneath a vehicle. Firefighters and paramedics worked to free him, lifting the vehicle from on top of him and rushing him to the hospital with “serious, life-threatening injuries,” police said. The sedan driver also went to the hospital, though his condition was unknown.
Another AT&T worker was nearly caught in the crash, jumping out of the way to escape the impact, Rodriguez told the news outlet.
So far, authorities do not believe drugs or alcohol were a factor.
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