Boynton Beach, Fla — The Florida Highway Patrol has released dashcam video of a car striking a trooper in Boynton Beach Monday evening.
Trooper Jeremy Medastin was walking back to his patrol car on the inside shoulder of I-95 to start paperwork for a crash investigation.
Reports say rainy weather caused the driver to loose control of the car which veered into the trooper.
The video shows him jump onto the barrier wall to avoid the car.
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Police dashcam video captured the harrowing moment a driver lost control on a Florida highway, swerving and hitting a trooper in Boynton Beach who was investigating a different accident.
— ABC News (@ABC) May 15, 2019
Authorities say the officer injured his ankle but is otherwise okay. https://t.co/SQ3tnHdqUf pic.twitter.com/7aYMbMEV5q
Luckily, Trooper Medastin escaped with nothing more than a broken ankle.