Car Levitating on Water After Hitting Fire Hydrant in California Looks Almost Identical to Crash Scene From 2024
A driver crashed into a fire hydrant in Panorama City, California, last week. In an eerie coincidence, the scene looked almost identical to another crash that occurred in the Los Angeles area in 2024.
The most recent crash in California involving a fire hydrant was, of course, caught on surveillance video. In it, a Nissan Versa hatchback can be seen crossing the busy intersection of Roscoe Boulevard and Ventura Canyon Avenue just before 1 p.m.
As the Versa began moving, a silver sedan came into the intersection and was about to t-bone the hatchback. In order to avoid the collision, the Nissan driver swerved and hit a hydrant on a sidewalk just outside a 7-Eleven store.
The damaged hydrant then lifted the rear of the Versa off the ground, where it remained, suspended in midair.
The driver of the Versa and a passenger escaped from the floating car. They appeared uninjured when fire crews arrived at the scene, according to KTLA News. The driver of the silver sedan, on the other hand, just drove off as if nothing happened. (Where have we seen that before?)
An eerily similar accident involving a fire hydrant occurred not too far from there in 2024
In June of 2024, a similar scenario unfolded in Lake Forest, California. There, at around 6:30 p.m., a fire hydrant was sheared off during a two-car crash. In that case, a silver sedan (coincidence?) was left suspended in the air by the hydrant. As in the accident in Panorama City, the small vehicle was nosedown, while water lifted the rear of the car.
KTLA News reported at the time that it was unclear exactly how the crash occurred. The driver of the floating car was also able to extricate themselves from the vehicle before first responders arrived.
“We’re going to chalk this up as something you don’t see every day,” the Orange County Fire Department wrote in a post on Facebook about the incident. They’re right. You only see it once every two years or so.
