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MELBOURNE, Fla. – A high-speed collision in Melbourne<\/a> on Saturday resulted in a vehicle being launched into the air after a driver failed to brake for stopped traffic.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Beauregarde McDonald started recording the green Toyota Tacoma seen in the video after it “pulled out almost hitting me and then proceeded to drive like a maniac.”<\/p>\n READ: Car slams into telephone box, fence and tree killing driver and seriously injuring passenger in Hudson: FHP<\/a><\/p>\n “I had a feeling something was going to happen, but I didn\u2019t know it would be this,” McDonald continued.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n The dramatic footage shows the green pickup overtaking McDonald and rapidly catching up with vehicles stopped a little farther ahead. The driver “was accelerating the entire time until a last-second brake attempt,” McDonald said, with the video capturing the powerful impact, which sent the truck flying.<\/p>\n McDonald said that the white car was “pretty beat up” and that its driver and passenger were in “an absolute state of shock and in rough condition.”<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was collected by Storyful.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Fla. – A high-speed collision in Melbourne on Saturday resulted in a vehicle being launched into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-178167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}