Video shows electric car flipping out of control, hitting multiple vehicles at New Hampshire Market Basket
New footage captures the intense moment a vehicle careened uncontrollably through Manchester, New Hampshire’s Market Basket parking area, toppling over and colliding with multiple cars before eventually settling on its side. “Essentially, the car seemed to be driving by itself, it all unfolded so rapidly,” shared Fiordaliz Lopez. Lopez had been making her way to work at a dental clinic adjacent to the supermarket at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday when, as she describes, the electric Toyota abruptly accelerated without her intervention while the brakes failed to respond. She recounted, “I was shouting that the car wasn’t braking, the car wasn’t braking, and I had no clue how it would end.”
With smoke emanating from the vehicle, she considers herself extremely fortunate that no pedestrians were harmed amidst the packed parking lot, and she herself survived. “My car flipped over, and I thank God that nothing serious happened to me because I thought it was going to be my last day,” Lopez expressed. “When the car was out of control, that was my thought, that it was going to be my last.” She emphasized that it was her seatbelt that safeguarded her, securing her inside the overturned car as onlookers hurried to her aid while she struggled to extricate herself. “I placed my feet on the driver’s side door, pushed myself up, and they helped me out,” Lopez recounted. “That was a divine intervention.”
Although she is now left with bruising on her arm and a discomforting injury on her neck due to the pressure applied by the seatbelt, Lopez dismisses the possibility that she unintentionally pressed the accelerator, as she maintains she had done no such thing. She attributes her survival to a higher power, stating, “It was God who pulled me out because there is no way I could have managed to escape the car by myself.” She admits that the memory of the near-catastrophe and narrowly evaded tragedy will linger with her for a considerable time.