From the air, it stole your breath. Below โ a tow truck barely clinging to the southbound concrete barrier of the Sam Rayburn Tollway after a crash near Hardin Boulevard. McKinney firefighters sprinted to save 32-year-old Martin Briones-Vazquez before gravity did. His brother, Oscar Vazquez, was still on the way when the call came in from family. โShe called me on the way here,โ Oscar said. โItโs a little worse than we thought. Heโs hanging off a bridge.โ โHanging off a bridge doesnโt sound good at all, right?โ
Texas DPS said Briones-Vazquez was hauling two vehicles on a flatbed trailer when he came upon a disabled car in the roadway. He swerved to avoid a collision but struck the stalled vehicle and the concrete barrier โ leaving his cab hanging over the edge.
From Chopper 8, the view was harrowing โ the truckโs cab suspended high above Highway 121 as crews positioned their ladder truck beneath it. โFor us, having a semi hanging off of Sam Rayburn is not a normal day on the job,โ said Luis Aguilar with McKinney Fire Department. โWhat ended up happening is Truck 1 put their ladder right under the semi–then crews broke the glass from the cab, and then just had him come out through there.โ
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