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July 18, 2008

This week's "holy crap" video

Posted: 11:19 AM ET

Shelby County Today / Richard Hughes

Sitting at my desk at CNN Center on Tuesday I happened to look up at the live feed from Studio H just in time to see Chuck Roberts toss to security camera video of a pickup pulling a 5th wheel trailer that clips the roof of a bank drive-through and brings the whole thing smashing down onto the truck! It's the kind of clip that causes you, completely against your will, to say, "Holy crap!" or "Duuuuude!" or "No WAY!" It's only after that first impulse to stop and stare at disaster that the empathy kicks in and your next words are, "Are they OK?" In this case the answer is yes, but only barely.

Seconds later I'd found the clip online. While I watched it over and over and over and I also went about trying to find any additional information I could about where this happened and the condition of the driver. That led me to the online "newspaper" Shelby County Today that covers the area around the city of Center, Texas where the crash occurred. A couple of emails later and Richard Hughes who runs that site had sent me several pics he'd taken at the scene, including the one above. Trust me when I say the video only tells part of the story...

Get a look INSIDE the cab of the truck and see how big the drive through roof really is (or was) .

Shelby County Today / Richard Hughes

Here's the good news, According to shelbycountytoday.com, the driver Mickey Miller, and his 10 year old son were the only people in the truck, and neither of them were hurt! Luckily no other cars were in the drive-through area either.

Shelby County Today / Richard Hughes

If you're too lazy to Google it... we'll have the video for you on this weekend's show, repeatedly, and likely in slo-mo too. You can also catch it on CNN.com/video.

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Ronald Miller   July 18th, 2008 2:26 pm ET

Dont know if it is true but i heard he was pulling into the bank to make the first payment on the travel trailer.

mickey miller   July 18th, 2008 7:11 pm ET

I was the one driving the truck and I was not going to pay the first note.

Connie May   July 18th, 2008 8:16 pm ET

Angels were among you.

Beth Harrington   July 18th, 2008 9:31 pm ET

God was definitely with you. Tell Ty I said hello.

News to Me Blog: The world as YOU see it Blog Archive - Hotlinks for 7/19 & 7/20 « - Blogs from CNN.com   July 19th, 2008 6:01 pm ET

[...] Truck and trailer smash into bank: Check out the video here, and then check out the photos of the aftermath here. [...]

Letitia Poindexter   July 21st, 2008 3:42 pm ET

It makes me wonder how well the structual design was for it to come down like that, I know he was not driving that fast and it didn't look like it hit that hard. But i agree Angels where with you and your son that day

Rhonda Barlow   July 21st, 2008 5:58 pm ET

Just an East Texas misshap, It could happen to anyone!!

Clem   July 24th, 2008 1:23 pm ET

Are you people serious? This is very obviously an act of complete stupidity or/and ignorance.

To finish one of the sentences above... This could happen to anyone -who lacks the know-how, skill and sense to pull a trailer of this size.

I'm glad you and your son escaped unharmed. I hope the bank punishes your idiocy with some hefty repair bills though, as this could have led to the tragedy of innocent bank customers.

Jesse   February 25th, 2009 1:45 pm ET

I may be a little late to write, but that was definately an engineering flaw! It looks like the roof was just laying on the pillars. I watched a large cube van do the same thing at the bank in my town, and the roof didn't even budge, and it was just as big. The one on here didn't even hesitate. There's a construction company that should have the crap sued right out of them!!!!!

That was obviously a driver mistake that shouldn't have happened, but that kind of mistake should have been taken in to consideration when the bank was built!

There was definately someone watching over those two!

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