Vine Video Captures Truck Flying off the Road Before Disappearing! Watch Raw [VIDEO] of Heart Stopping Accident Here!

By Jobs & Hire Staff Reporter | Aug 20, 2013 07:38 PM EDT

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Vine user Alex Stack spectacularly captures a truck falling off the median and flying out of a guardrail on Interstate 96 into Sycamore Creek last Friday.

The video shows the horror of the truck towing a utility carrier with a lawnmower in it before going out of sight and making its 10-feet landing into the creek. Thankfully, the creek is extremely shallow at the time of the incident. The vine instantly became viral, with Alex Stack tweeting, "The amount of emails I've gotten off this video in the past 20 min is pushing 50..."

The caption for her video showing the accident states, "Did I just fucking witness this no fucking way," While the video is horrifying to watch, especially that it's playing over and over again, 59-year old Mark Moerland was found conscious and talking to the police after the accident ad before he was taken to Sparrow Hospital.

According to Ingham County Sheriff's Sgt. Matthew Flint, the Kentwood man was pulled out by the Delhi Township fire department, along with the aid of Lansing's fire department. "He's very fortunate to be alive," Flint shares. Throughout the extrication, both the eastbound and westbound lanes were forced to close but have now reopened for motorists.

Updates report that Moerland is currently recovering from a fractured leg, dislocated ankle, lower back fracture and a partial lung collapse, which won't necessarily obstruct his breathing.

As featured in Stack's Vine, his 2007 Nissan Titan pick up ramped just before it flew into the creek. As for what led Mark's truck to drive off the road, doctors in Sparrow state that they believe the 59-year old was suffering from an unspecified "medical condition" just before the incident happened.

The vine is definitely creating an online buzz, with Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Reddit immediately featuring the incredible video in their sites. This might be the most jaw dropping accidental social media journalism we've seen so far.

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