A trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol narrowly prevented damage, or worse, on January 18 after a collision throughout a visitors cease on Interstate 40. Trooper Jesse Gregory had pulled over the motive force of a Mercury Mariner and was in the course of conducting the routine cease when a Lexus GX 470 touring at freeway speeds veered into the shoulder and crashed instantly into the Mariner.

The drive of the impression pushed Trooper Gregory onto the bottom and brought about the Lexus SUV to rollover at the least as soon as. The Mariner, alternatively, limps ahead just a few ft with its driver facet smashed-in and particles raining outward. Within the sprint cam footage — initially shared by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and republished by ABC — we will make out the GX 470 tumbling over after it barrels into the rear finish of the Mariner whereas the trooper rolls onto his ft:

The Oklahoma Freeway Patrol took to social media to share footage of the crash, captioning its Facebook post with a warning and including the next assertion:

This video is troublesome to look at. It’s the sprint digicam from final Thursday, January 18, when Trooper Jesse Gregory #362 was struck by a driver on I-40 at Cimarron Highway. He was talking to the motive force of his visitors cease when one other automobile bumped into them.

We present this video as a graphic reminder of the results of distracted or impaired driving and the significance of the decelerate, transfer over legislation. We’re in the course of a distracted driving emphasis proper now in honor of Trooper Nicholas Dees, who misplaced his life within the line of responsibility after being struck by a distracted driver.

Fortunately, Trooper Gregory is anticipated to be okay. In truth, all three individuals concerned on this incident have been handled and launched.

Our investigators are wanting into the reason for this crash and the investigation is ongoing.

Trooper Gregory is doing an interview with KWTV – NEWS 9 . It’s scheduled to air tonight at 10.

Trooper Gregory sustained no main accidents within the crash, having suffered only a “comparatively minor damage to his left arm,” per ABC7. The 2 different drivers concerned within the collision are likewise in good well being.

The trooper reminded drivers to please decelerate after they see cops within the midst of a visitors cease on the facet of the street. Certainly, slowing down and transferring one lane over is commonplace follow for motorists who observe the police conducting a visitors cease, and in lots of states it’s essential to achieve this by legislation.

It’s unclear what led the Lexus GX to collide into the Mercury Mariner, but it surely’s doable that the motive force of the Lexus miscalculated their trajectory as they took the exit on I-40 that’s seen within the dash cam footage. The OHP trooper says he didn’t hear the Lexus driver brake. The investigation continues to be ongoing.

Trooper Gregory instructed KWTV reporters the dramatic crash is the second such collision in a row in the identical metropolis throughout the span of a month. An analogous crash occurred on January 5 inside “two or three miles,” according to Gregory, who was the primary to reply to the crash the place one other trooper was badly injured. Gregory goes on to say that second crash and close to miss is “hopefully the scare of [his] profession.”