2 days ago
Driver, 77, flips car inside Sydney Westfield car park
Dashcam footage has captured the dramatic moment a driver flipped his vehicle inside a major shopping centre carpark.
The vision showed a red car slowly driving towards a boom gate in the car park of Westfield Liverpool, in the city's southwest, early Tuesday afternoon when it suddenly accelerated.
The driver hit the boom gate with such force it flipped the car on its roof.
A pedestrian was nearby just moments earlier.
Al Fahad Habarneh, who captured the footage from his rear dashcam camera as he was leaving the centre, said he watched the collision unfold in his rearview mirror.
'I was at the lights on the exit ramp and all of the sudden I heard a big bang, I checked my rearview mirrors and I saw a car flipped so I put my car to park and rushed to help get the couple out of the car,' he told Storyful.
'Luckily both the driver and passenger made it out safe.'
Social media users were stunned at how the man managed to land the car on its roof.
'Wow they know how to flip a car, literally couldn't do that if I tried,' one wrote.
'Always wondered how people flip cars, didn't realise it was this easy,' another added.
Others questioned if other shoppers were able to get out.
'Man that really sucks... for the person behind him,' one Instagram user said.
The 77-year-old driver and his passenger were taken to Liverpool Hospital for checks.
