Video Shows Man Tossed from RV on Newhall-Area Freeway

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NEWHALL (CNS) - Video of a man being ejected from a moving RV that struck a freeway divider in Newhall was grabbing plenty of attention Tuesday, with the man lucky to have survived a fall that threw him into oncoming traffic.

A witness, Alf Smithey, told reporters he saw the RV swerve across the southbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway and strike the center divider near Los Pinetos Road around 11:30 a.m. Monday.

Dashcam video taken by a motorist on the southbound side of the freeway shows a man apparently falling from the RV, landing across the freeway divider near the northbound carpool lane.

Smithey, initially unaware that anyone had fallen from the vehicle, said he stopped and ran to the RV to see if anyone was injured.

He told NBC4 he talked to the woman behind the wheel, who told him her husband was missing.

"She kept saying, `My husband is not here. My husband is not here,"' Smithey told the station. "Then she kept looking out the window behind her."

Smithey said the woman had apparently fallen asleep behind the wheel, and the impact with the center divider threw her husband across the vehicle and through a window, sending him onto the opposite side of the freeway.

Smithey said he ran to help the man, and found him conscious and alert.

"He had a big old gash on his forehead," he told Channel 4. "I think it was from hitting the window. He was the passenger. He flew across her and hit the window. I think that's what saved his life because if the window was open, he could have landed into oncoming traffic."

The injured man was taken to a hospital in unknown condition.


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