Terrifying moment Fort Lauderdale crane collapses onto a car driving over a bridge in accident that killed construction worker

A motorist was conscionable inches from decease erstwhile portion of a crane collapsed onto their car arsenic they drove on an overpass adjacent to a constru*++ction site.

Parts of nan crane plummeted onto the Southeast 3rd Avenue span successful Fort Lauderdale astir 4.30pm connected April 4, sidesplitting building worker Jorge De La Torre.

Gemmalyn Castillo was 1 of 3 others injured erstwhile a monolithic portion of nan crane crushed nan rider broadside of nan taxi she was in.

Newly released video shows nan portion of wreckage slam onto nan achromatic Tesla sedan, stopping nan car successful its tracks, on pinch different astir it.

Castillo was successful nan backmost spot and suffered 'severe and superior caput and facial trauma' erstwhile she was thrown astir nan cabin, her lawyers said.

Video showed nan driver jump retired of nan car, miraculously unharmed, but Castillo was stuck successful nan backmost until constabulary extracted her from nan seat.

Police bodycam footage, released on pinch nan video, showed paramedics staunching nan bleeding from Castillo caput wounds arsenic she cried hysterically.

They besides said to nan driver, who told them: 'My mind is beautiful messed up... but if I could person my phone?'

Other footage showed constabulary trying to clear nan area if anyone who wasn't injured and had a intends of getting retired of nan way.

One policeman told a motorist who stopped connected nan span erstwhile nan crane fell, but missed his car, that he needed to spell 'over location distant from nan crane' 

The man bluntly noted 'it's already fallen' but nan bull warned him 'it could support falling!'

'That point almost fell connected me, ok!' nan driver protested.

Construction workers were besides filmed saying nan crane must person structurally grounded arsenic it was being 'stepped' by adding pieces to it to summation its height.

'Something snapped and made that point fall, because that point was already successful place,' 1 of nan workers said. 

De La Torre, who was connected nan crane, fell to his decease and Gregory Garcia, 43, and Carol Zinser, 69, were injured connected nan crushed on with Castillo.

Mark Cerezin's Tesla was besides deed by nan crane arsenic he drove down nan different Tesla, but he was uninjured.

'I was driving and I felt a compression, and I looked up and I saw nan bluish building coming down, and I slammed connected my brakes,' he told NBC astatine nan time.

'It sheared disconnected nan beforehand of my Tesla and each nan airbags went disconnected - and I'm very fortunate to beryllium alive.'

The crane portion fell from a 43-story flat building that was nether construction, readying to location mostly seniors on pinch shops.

The $151 cardinal task was plagued pinch delays, lawsuits, and creation and building problems moreover earlier nan crane disaster.

Phoenix Rigging & Erecting LLC, Kast Construction, LLC, and Maxim Crane Works LP are being investigated by nan Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Fort Lauderdale Police investigated but recovered nary criminal conduct.

Castillo's lawyer Judd Rosen was displeased that nary 1 would beryllium held criminal liable for nan crane collapse.

'When these types of things hap arsenic a community, we person to look and say, what are we doing to make judge it does not hap again?' he said.

'Because correct now, I person not heard thing astir immoderate criminal charges, and wherever is nan accountability?' 

Castillo successful April sued nan companies progressive successful nan task for $50 million, claiming their negligence caused nan mishap and they grounded to protect nan public.

It claimed Kast 'negligently and carelessly allowed an unsafe information connected its building tract and/or negligently and carelessly operated and/or constructed and/or installed and/or supervising nan usage of nan crane instrumentality specified that it came crashing down onto postulation below'.

Castillo's lawyers claimed nan crane wasn't decently inspected, assembled, aliases moved, and that shortcuts were made to decorativeness nan building 'on an unreasonably accelerated schedule'.

De La Torre was nan begetter of a five-year-old woman and two-year-old boy and traveled to Florida shape his location successful Georgia for work.

'God took you from maine & I'll ne'er cognize why. I will emotion you for nan remainder of my life. You were a awesome dad, an annoyingly funny champion friend, nan champion supplier and nan emotion of my life,' his wife Joselyn Farias wrote. 

'Your grin and laughter will everlastingly unrecorded successful my mind and heart. Your emotion is craaied done our kids and they will miss you truthful much. They are reliable chunk babies and will proceed to unrecorded connected for you.

'I emotion you, and I will travel to you erstwhile it's my clip to remainder pinch you.'