A driver had what can only be described as a miraculous escape after a palette of cemenent sack dropped onto the roof of her car.

The accident took place on Calle Arabial around 17.25h on the 23rd of last month when a construction crane dropped its load.

The impact almost flattened the vehicle yet the woman was virtually unhurt. The falling material fortunately hit the roof above the passenger’s sea and not where she was sitting.

Rapidly, the Policía Local, fire service an an ambulance arrived and fire personnel set about extracting the woman from the car. However, the first to come to her aid was a solar-panel fitter, a security guard and a doctor, who was passing by.

One of them cut the victim’s seat belt which was restricting her. Apparently, the victim just repeated her father’s telephone number over and over again in a state of shock.

A crowd gathered as this is right in the centre of the city, near Hipercor, close to Cafetería Puerta Bernina, on the corner with Calle Cañaveral.

The victim’s car was stationary behind the crane and as it was swinging this load up building in construction a strong gust of wind upset the load causing it to fall. The stress on the crane arm left it buckled.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)