Falling asleep at the wheel was almost fatal to a 23-year-old motorist in Aiton (Savoie).
The young man has indeed left the road, in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, and his vehicle fell directly in the Isère, currently in flood, as indicated by the site of France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The victim then managed to get out of the cabin to climb on the roof of his car, which emerged from the stream.
He then had to take his troubles patiently since due to the darkness and thick vegetation on the banks of the river, no one noticed the man stuck in his car. Until Thursday at dawn, when an inspired truck driver contacted the Savoy firefighters. "We had only one call, and this truck driver saved his life," say the latter, who organized the rescue. The man was 20 meters from the bank so it would have been very risky for him to try to swim to the mainland with the river in flood. "
A boat was first launched to transport the young man to a gravel islet in the middle of the Isère.
A helicopter-hoisted doctor observed that he had withstood this accident and this incredible night on the roof of his vehicle.
"He was a hell of a guy," explain the firefighters.
We didn't need to take him to the hospital, his mom came to pick him up.
The happy epilogue of a rather surreal accident.
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