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Truck Flies 50 Feet Off Freeway in San Diego, Hits Dave & Buster’s Below; Driver Badly Hurt

A truck plunged 50 feet of a freeway and onto a Dave & Buster's parking lot below.

The driver of a pickup truck suffered major injuries Sunday afternoon when his truck launched off a freeway onramp and crashed into a restaurant parking lot 50 feet below, according to the San Diego Fire & Rescue Department.

Firefighters used extraction tools to pry the driver from the crumpled wreckage of his Ford F-350. He was conscious when taken to a local hospital with possible neck and back trauma.

The incident occurred on the transition ramp from westbound Interstate 8 to northbound Interstate 805 in Mission Valley.
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The pickup truck went over the guardrail and struck the back wall of a Dave & Buster’s restaurant before landing upright in the parking lot.

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