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A lucky man in California just happened to get out of his car in Malibu and a 4-foot rock crushed his car.
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Mauricio Henao said his car was a total loss after a rock “the size of an entire hood” fell on his sedan.
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Severe storms made many roads and highways impassable last week, making them prone to landslides. KTLA.
A California man may have cheated death when he got out of his car and answered a phone call just before his car was crushed by a landslide.
Mauricio Henao said he had parked his car on Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway and got out to answer the phone when he heard a “huge crash” as rocks on the hillside behind him began to slide. rice field. KTLA5.
“I was in the driver’s seat, got out, got a call, got back in the car and came out. The car was just totaled,” Henao told KTLA. “I ran and saw that my car had just been crushed.”
A four-foot rock crushed the roof of his sedan, and rocks and debris blocked the four-lane traffic, KTLA reported.
“The rock is the size of the whole hood,” Henao told KTLA. “All the windshields are broken and all the car frames are twisted.”
Last week’s historic downpours left roads and highways in the area impassable due to flooding, mud and debris. KTLA Previously reported.
Henao credits the phone call he received for saving his life, KTLA reported.
“I’m pretty upset,” Henao told the outlet.
No one was injured in the landslide, but other vehicles were damaged. Local resident Nick Kennedy told his KTLA that a rolling rock came “across the street” and damaged his SUV parked in the driveway.
“I’m happy my car was there,” Kennedy told the outlet. [the rocks] My desk is across the wall, so it would have nailed me through the walls of the house. ”
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