Moment a driver managed to flip his Audi after smashing into a parked car before apparently fleeing
Incredibly, the man walked away from the crash unharmed
THIS is the moment a driver managed to flip his Audi after smashing into a parked car before apparently fleeing.
The man, who was described by a witness as being Asian, slim and in his 30s, hit a van and scraped some cars before somehow flipping his black A3 onto its roof.
It is then believed the man crawled out of the driver’s side of the car before making a phone call and walking away from the accident on the quiet residential street in East Ham, east London
Shocked neighbours called the ambulance service after the crash yesterday at around 7.30pm but when they arrived the man was no longer in the area.
Officers said they did not know if the car was stolen or if the driver was under the influence at the time.
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Pictures taken by shocked witnesses shows the car with its back window smashed and driver’s door open with local residents watching on.
One witness, Yanik Beya, 30, said: “I was walking along the road to my sister’s house who lives nearby.
“I’ve never seen a crash on that street, there’s speed bumps so people don’t really manage to get much speed up.
“I heard a crunch and turned around and the next thing I saw was this car on its roof.
“The man crawled out and then just called someone, I guess it was a loved one to say he was alright.
“He was a bit shaken up but he walked away, we thought to make a call and compose himself, but he never came back.
“I don’t know how he managed to do it, it is a small road and it looks almost impossible to get the car on the angle he did.”
The car, which was blocking the street, was later removed.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “We were called by the London Ambulance Service to a collision involving two vehicles.
“The driver of one of the vehicles made off prior to the police’s arrival.
“Officers tried to conduct a search but the driver has not been traced.”
A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service, who also attended, fearing there had been a casualty, added: “We were called to Altmore Avenue at 7.39pm to reports of a road traffic collision.
“We did send a single responder in a car and an ambulance to the scene but there was no patient.”
