Horrifying footage shows moment car plummets from motorway flyover and into crowd of pedestrians

Ellen Manning

This is the moment a car plummeted 20ft from a motorway flyover into a crowd of people - leaving one woman dead and six others injured.

Horrifying CCTV footage shows the car ploughing through safety barriers and off the edge of the flyover.

It landed on a group of pedestrians who were waiting at a bus stop in Hyderabad, Telangana in southern India on Saturday afternoon.

This terrifying video shows the moment a car plummeted 20ft from a motorway flyover into a crowd of people - killing one woman and injuring six others. See SWNS story SWOCcrash. Shocking CCTV shows how the car lost control and flew off the flyover - landing on top of a group of people standing beneath the road. Footage from the scene, in Hyderabad, Telangana, southern India shows a group of pedestrians waiting at a bus stop at around 1pm yesterday (Saturday) afternoon. A red Volkswagen can then be seen smashing through safety barriers and landing right where the crowd of people are stood. Some people managed to spot the car heading towards them and were able to escape without injury. The six people who were injured were rushed to hospital for treatment. According to local police, the car is understood to have been travelling at more than 100km/ph when it crashed - on a road with a 40km/ph speed limit.
The car plummeted 20ft from a motorway flyover into a crowd of people in Hyderabad, Telangana, southern India (Picture: SWNS)
This terrifying video shows the moment a car plummeted 20ft from a motorway flyover into a crowd of people - killing one woman and injuring six others. See SWNS story SWOCcrash. Shocking CCTV shows how the car lost control and flew off the flyover - landing on top of a group of people standing beneath the road. Footage from the scene, in Hyderabad, Telangana, southern India shows a group of pedestrians waiting at a bus stop at around 1pm yesterday (Saturday) afternoon. A red Volkswagen can then be seen smashing through safety barriers and landing right where the crowd of people are stood. Some people managed to spot the car heading towards them and were able to escape without injury. The six people who were injured were rushed to hospital for treatment. According to local police, the car is understood to have been travelling at more than 100km/ph when it crashed - on a road with a 40km/ph speed limit.
The car flew into a crowd of pedestrians waiting for a bus, leaving one dead and injuring six (Picture: SWNS)

According to police, the red Volkswagen was travelling at more than 100km per hour when the driver lost control.

That was despite the speed limit on the road being 40km per hour.

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Some pedestrians managed to dive out of the way when they saw the approaching car.

But as it plummeted into the crowd, six people were injured and had to be rushed to hospital.

This terrifying video shows the moment a car plummeted 20ft from a motorway flyover into a crowd of people - killing one woman and injuring six others. See SWNS story SWOCcrash. Shocking CCTV shows how the car lost control and flew off the flyover - landing on top of a group of people standing beneath the road. Footage from the scene, in Hyderabad, Telangana, southern India shows a group of pedestrians waiting at a bus stop at around 1pm yesterday (Saturday) afternoon. A red Volkswagen can then be seen smashing through safety barriers and landing right where the crowd of people are stood. Some people managed to spot the car heading towards them and were able to escape without injury. The six people who were injured were rushed to hospital for treatment. According to local police, the car is understood to have been travelling at more than 100km/ph when it crashed - on a road with a 40km/ph speed limit.
According to local police, the car is understood to have been travelling at more than 100km per hour - on a road with a 40km per hour speed limit (Picture: SWNS)
The driver of the car escaped without serious injury (Picture: SWNS)
The driver of the car escaped without serious injury (Picture: SWNS)

One woman was also killed in the terrifying incident.

The driver of the car escaped without serious injury, police said.

Earlier this year video of a truck driver driving more than a mile with a car stuck to the front of his cab after an "extreme road rage" incident in India went viral online.

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