Dead Body Apparently Saves Hearse Driver Who Crashed and Was Left Teetering on Snowy Colorado Cliff

A dead body being transported for organ donation earlier this year may have unexpectedly saved a life after a hearse came dangerously close to going over a cliff.

Summit Fire & EMS said a man was driving a hearse down Interstate 70 around 3 a.m. on Jan. 27, when the vehicle went off the road near mile marker 212 between Silverthorne and the Eisenhower Tunnel, according toFOX affiliate KDVRandVailDaily.com.

“They literally bounced me all the way over to the cliff,” the young man said during the conversation. “I was like teetering, and then when I, like, opened my … eyes, I was like ‘Holy f**k’ and I was coughing like crazy ‘cause there was smoke everywhere.”

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“OK, file this one under: ‘You’ll never believe it,'” Summit Fire and EMS wrote in anow-deletedFacebook post addressing the crash, according to KDVR.

“If the ‘passenger’ hadn’t already been dead, this surely would have done it,” they later added.

source: people.com