Horrifying video captures the moment a former ESPN sportscaster was ejected from his RV on a busy California highway after his wife fell asleep at the wheel and hit a divider.
Cordell Patrick was traveling with his wife north on Highway 14 in Newhall to their home in Valencia on Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel as he got up to use the bathroom, KTLA reported.
“I just unbuckled the seat belt. It was only open for five seconds,” Patrick told the outlet.
“I noticed my wife was sleepy, so instead of continuing to walk, we headed towards the median. I tried to grab the steering wheel, but before I could grab it, we had an impact,” he said.
The motor home hit the divider at about 60 mph, sending Patrick out the window and into the opposite lane.
Cordell Patrick in hospital after RV accident. KTLA
Chilling dashcam video captured by another vehicle shows the RV grinding on the divider as Patrick rolls onto the pavement after being thrown about 170 feet across the road in the middle of a traffic jam.
“All I could think about was that I was going to get hit by a car,” he told the outlet. “I was on one of the busiest freeways in LA County, so all I could think of was, ‘I’m going to die in a minute.’”
A white SUV can be seen swerving to avoid hitting the former ESPN sports anchor, who was seriously injured.
A white SUV swerved to avoid hitting Patrick, who lay seriously injured. @1967dodgedart
“I just dragged myself and then I leaned my back against the median until help could come and help came quickly,” he told the station.
Another driver, Alf Smithey, stopped when he saw the shocking scene.
“I noticed the guy was still lying in the street,” Smithey told KTLA.
“I was just trying to keep the car away from him. He was all the way there [conscious]. That’s the surprising part.
A passing motorist stopped to help Patrick, who was conscious throughout the ordeal. @1967dodgedart
“I asked him his name, I asked him all kinds of things and he got there. He knew he had a broken arm, he knew he had a broken leg,” he said.
Patrick broke several bones, dislocated his shoulder, and needed 17 stitches in his head.
He also developed a rash that covered about 60 percent of his body, according to the outlet.
But he said he was grateful to have miraculously survived the freak accident.
“It was divine intervention,” Patrick told KTLA. “If you don’t think there is a higher power before, I am a living witness and I have a living testimony to tell.”
His wife and their dog were not injured in the crash, which left their RV largely destroyed.
According to his X bio, Patrick previously worked as a studio host for the Chiefs and Spurs at local television stations.
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