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Some events defy understanding, many of which happen on the road. But this accident in South Africa really puts gives the imagination a workout. Nobody was injured when a car came crashing through the roof of a small house in Durban, according to the Times Live newspaper. Click here for the report. A person was asleep in a room close to where the vehicle buried itself into the home. The driver, too, escaped and claimed he recalls going over some kind of ramp that launched the car into the air and over the
July 3, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Some events defy understanding, many of which happen on the road. But this accident in South Africa really puts gives the imagination a workout.

Nobody was injured when a car came crashing through the roof of a small house in Durban, according to the Times Live newspaper. %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Click here Visit Times Live page false http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2015/07/02/The-car-was-flying---Durban-driver-crashes-through-houses-roof false false%> for the report.

A person was asleep in a room close to where the vehicle buried itself into the home. The driver, too, escaped and claimed he recalls going over some kind of ramp that launched the car into the air and over the house.

While it may be unimaginable how it happened, such events are more common than you might believe, as this link to weird car accidents proves.

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