Paralyzed man survives 2nd brush with death on collapsing bridge
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — Seven years ago, police in North Carolina covered shooting victim Marcelo Cruz with a tarp, believing he was dead. He wasn’t. Cruz survived the street fight shooting, but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
The Mexican native rebuilt his life, and at 26, was living in Minneapolis, driving a specially equipped van so he could get around the city.
That’s what he was doing Wednesday when he drove onto the Interstate 35W bridge just after 6 p.m., only to see the bridge in front of him start to shake — and in a few short seconds, tumble down.
Cruz saw 10 or 20 cars in front of him plunge into the water. He applied the brakes, but on the now-sloping bridge deck, he couldn’t stop.
I thought I was going to die,” he told CNN.
But he wasn’t afraid, he said. He just thought about what he needed to do and how to do it. How to stop a car if the brakes don’t do the job?
Cruz swerved, and plowed his van into the concrete guard rail. It worked — the van stopped, less than 15 feet from what was now the end of the bridge before it dropped into the Mississippi River.
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Source: www.cnn.com
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