Chaos erupted on a drenched Fullerton street Friday as a storm’s opening act slammed into Southern California. Just before noon, a hulking black pickup truck ended up belly-up in the middle of Chapman Avenue, its rear wheel busted loose like a kicked-off shoe.
Surveillance tape from a kebab joint nearby caught the whole messy scene: the truck cruising west when some idiot in a baby-blue Ford SUV veered into the wrong lane. Whether they actually clipped each other or just spooked the pickup driver, the result was the same: metal screeching, gravity losing, and boom—one truck doing a full somersault on wet pavement.
Somehow, the pickup’s driver clawed his way out, probably fueled by pure adrenaline, and immediately went nose-to-nose with the SUV driver. Bystanders said both looked like they’d seen a ghost, but hey, at least they were walking. Paramedics hauled them off to get checked out with what cops called “minor” injuries—which, let’s be real, probably still felt like hell the next morning.
@ktlanews A pickup truck flipped onto its roof and its driver was transported to a local hospital Friday morning as a storm system began to batter Southern California. Security footage appeared to show another vehicle drift into the pickup's lane seconds before the pickup overturned on Chapman Avenue in Fullerton. Click the link in our bio to read more.
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No word yet on whether the weather was the main culprit, but come on. Sheets of rain had already turned roads into slip ‘n’ slides across Orange County. And this was just day one of a brutal atmospheric river ready to unload buckets for days. Forecasters warned some spots near LA might slurp up a year’s worth of rain in 48 hours.
Emergency teams basically begged people to stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary. But let’s face it: someone’s always gotta test their luck.
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