The injured New Jersey man has said the accident and injuries “will haunt me forever.” Courtesy of Stathis and Leonardis
Video shows the moment New York Jets cornerback Brandin Echols loses control of his Dodge Charger Hellcat at 84 mph and runs an unfortunate motorist off the road, sending the BMW into the air, plunging into a railing and towards a field.
Stephen Gilberg, 51, of Livingston, New Jersey, claims he was “partially paralyzed” after the April 26, 2022 crash, and is suing Echols and the Jets.
The high-speed crash occurred around 2:00 pm on Columbia Turnpike near Morristown Airport, just minutes from the Jets’ practice facility in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Echols was suspended for one game in 2023, but the team never publicly announced it was for the rookie’s reckless and near-fatal driving.
The injured New Jersey man has said the accident and injuries “will haunt me forever.”
In the 10-second dash cam clip obtained by The Post, Echols, behind the wheel of the black 2021 Hellcat, can be seen attempting to pass Gilberg’s black 2018 BMW X5 on the left. The muscle car suddenly veers to the right and crashes into the driver’s side of the Beemer, propelling Gilberg’s SUV over the guardrail.
The BMW landed “face down in a swampy area,” the victim said.
Gilberg remained trapped inside the overturned BMW for an hour until emergency services were able to extricate him from the vehicle, his attorney said.
The accident left him with broken ribs and “no feeling or movement in both hands or right leg, requiring spinal surgery,” according to police reports.
Read more at New York Post
2024-05-06 22:34:06
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