Large truck pushes sedan through intersection, keeps driving

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — A Toyota Corolla trying to change lanes in front of a tractor trailer instead was pushed by the truck through the intersection in Framingham.

"At the moment it was so fast it was so quick.. I never thought I would’ve never thought he was going to drag me like that," said Natividad Rivera, the driver of the sedan.

Two Framingham sisters were in the car; their lighthearted morning drive to a supermarket quickly became terrifying when Rivera tried to make a lane change at a red light.

She says she used her blinker to pull in front of the truck but then the light turned green, and the truck driver stepped on the gas.

The semi driver did not see the Corolla, and kept driving for about the length of a football field, pushing the Corolla along.

"I'm not jumping and I can't move the car so I let it drag me, saying God save us from this," said Rivera.

The crash happened on Cochituate Road, as the truck driving was turning left onto Concord Street and was captured by cell phone video. The witness who recorded it said he was worried the Corolla was going to end up under the truck.

"The next thing I know the truck started pushing and I was in awe that’s when I zoomed out to show the whole thing," said Lenny Chroek.

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Just as Rivera and her sister, Felicida Masa, thought it was going to get worse, the truck driver stopped.

"When he came out he said, 'I'm sorry I didn't see you'…I said an accident is an accident, what can we do?" said Rivera.

Both sisters crawled out of the passenger side of the Corolla, amazed by the fairly minimal damage in what they call an extraordinary experience of someone looking down on them.

  As Framingham police noted in their Facebook post, large trucks and tractor trailers have signs that read, "if you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you", is there for a reason.

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Police say this appears to be an honest accident and there have been no charges or citations issued since this happened last Friday.

Rivera tells us she had just purchased the Corolla she was driving as a present to herself, and it surprisingly still drives.

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