Wild video shows towed car swinging around Texas highway

New York Post

15-05-2025

Wild video shows a car violently zigzagging out of control while being towed backwards down a busy Texas highway — with a terrified-looking driver inside.
Dontae Brown, 32, could be seen panicking in his blue sedan as it whips around through traffic on Houston's North Loop while being pulled by a white SUV driven by his laughing girlfriend.
'What are you doing, stupid?' gasped David Chairez, who filmed the now-viral video footage of the crazy scene as the sedan swung wildly between lanes — and nearly smashed into a barrier.
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'It looked like a scene from 'Fast & Furious,'' Chairez said. 'That was very reckless, and that was very dangerous.'
The blue sedan was being towed backwards along Houston's North Loop on Monday.
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Police later said Brown and his girlfriend came up with the dangerous, madcap plan because they could not afford a tow truck — with the chain they used to pull it then snapping off the car's axle, leaving it swinging around, ABC 13 reported.
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Witnesses said the man's girlfriend, who was towing the sedan while he was inside, was laughing as he swerved out of control.
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Brown appeared upset when he finally came to a stop, witness Ken Collins said.
'It was crazy, I thought they was [about to] fight, I thought he was going to jump on the driver. He was yelling at the lady, he hit his hood,' Collins told KHOU.
'She was trying to talk to him, but he didn't want to hear nothing of it. He was like, 'you messed up my car, you [messed] up my car,'' he said.
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Brown was arrested for an active warrant he had out of Georgia, but no citations were given in this case, according to police.