A smoldering car went airborne and rocketed across four lanes of a Long Island highway in a smoky, gravity-defying caught-on-video wreck on Wednesday.
Dashcam footage from a driver on Sunrise Highway shows the 2012 Honda catapult from a service road into the air above the thoroughfare — shooting like a missile as it clears the entire eastbound side before it torpedoes down on the westbound lanes.
An unidentified 70-year-old Brentwood man suffered seizure behind the wheel, officials said.
“He had a medical episode causing him to lose control and go flying up the embankment on the service road, over both the westbound then eastbound lanes, and landed in the embankment down the eastbound side,” Dennison DeNatalie, a spokesman for the Bay Shore Fire Department, told The Post.
Miraculously, the car narrowly missed other drivers as it cut through the service road, ripped through the guardrail and shot above the highway.
The elderly driver survived with just minor injuries as no other cars were involved in the crash, according to DeNatalie.
The driver was transported to South Shore University Hospital for treatment after the crash and is expected to make a full recovery, officials said.
Photos and video from the scene show the crumpled 2012 Honda on its roof and wedged between trees on the side of Sunrise Highway as first responders worked to secure the area.
“What the f–k was that?!,” the driver of a now viral dash-cam video can be heard saying after the car flies right over him.
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