ORLANDO, FLORIDA — A Lamborghini owner escaped without a scratch Wednesday afternoon after a pickup truck drove over his car while he was still inside it in a Lake Nona parking lot, with only a lucky structural detail preventing the situation from turning fatal.
Ramon Ferrer said he was looking for a parking space outside his gym on Narcoossee Road when he spotted a pickup truck coming around a corner at speed. He stopped and began reversing, but the truck never slowed. “She’s going kind of fast, so I’m literally stopping. I’m reversing,” Ferrer said. “I guess she never saw me, and so she just ran through me.”
With the truck’s tire right in front of his face, Ferrer jumped out of the car just in time. “I jumped out of the car because I saw the wheel kept on spinning. So I’m like, she still wants to go,” he said.
What saved him from being crushed completely was the truck’s axle catching on the Lamborghini’s windshield pillar. “The only thing that actually saved me was God, of course, 100%, but another thing was her axle got stuck on my pillar on the windshield,” Ferrer said. “If not, she would have just wrecked me over completely. It would have been a nightmare. I wouldn’t be here right now, which is kind of crazy.”
Cellphone video of the aftermath spread rapidly on social media, showing the pickup truck sitting on top of the crushed Lamborghini. The incident drew a large crowd of onlookers. “There were so many people there. They just went there to see the whole thing. They were taking pictures, videos, and it was kind of crazy,” Ferrer said.
Ferrer had owned the Lamborghini for only five months before the crash. “I was able to buy the car, and that was a great, great feeling, and this happens five months later,” he said. The car has been taken to a body shop to assess the damage. Ferrer said he still cannot comprehend how the driver missed his car. “I don’t know how you can miss a whole car. I mean, yes, I’m slammed to the ground because it’s a Lamborghini, but I mean, still, how can you miss a car?”
It is unclear whether the pickup truck driver was cited. Orlando Police directed media inquiries to a public records request.
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