Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Dominic Alexandre, 23, said he prayed before his shift on Thursday, which is why he believes he is still alive after a truck nearly hit him while he was helping a driver on the side of I-95. “It’s a miracle,” Alexandre said. “God's always watching us.”The shocking video was captured the moment a gray truck comes barreling towards Alexandre and the female driver he was helping with a flat tire on I-95 in Lake Worth, Florida.“I am very fortunate and very lucky out of the countless troopers that I know who were not so lucky,” Alexandre said. “They died. They got seriously hurt, injured, or career-ending events.”Sister station WPBF reports a hit-and-run driver in a sedan led to this accident. "There was an unknown sedan that collided with the rear end of the white pickup truck which swerved into the gray pickup truck and the gray pickup truck and the white pickup truck swerve towards my direction and the female motorist direction," Alexandre said.The video shows the moment the trooper turns his head seconds before the truck collides with the SUV. "I was able to hear the screeching sound of the pickup truck and glance to my left and I had a split-second decision to save my life or get hit so I ran to the right immediately as fast as I can," Alexandre said. The woman who the trooper was assisting suffered injuries to her legs but is expected to survive."Assisting her with a flat tire would’ve called the road ranger to help her change the flat tire and I didn’t know that day would be a pivotal moment in my life," Alexandre said.But the trooper said after the near-death experience, other drivers still weren’t following the move over law which requires drivers to either move over a lane for emergency vehicles or slow down to 20 mph less than the posted speed limit. "Even after the situation happened there were still vehicles passing the speed limit or even faster than the speed limit right next to where the situation happened," Alexandre said.
Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Dominic Alexandre, 23, said he prayed before his shift on Thursday, which is why he believes he is still alive after a truck nearly hit him while he was helping a driver on the side of I-95.
“It’s a miracle,” Alexandre said. “God's always watching us.”
The shocking video was captured the moment a gray truck comes barreling towards Alexandre and the female driver he was helping with a flat tire on I-95 in Lake Worth, Florida.
“I am very fortunate and very lucky out of the countless troopers that I know who were not so lucky,” Alexandre said. “They died. They got seriously hurt, injured, or career-ending events.”
Sister station WPBF reports a hit-and-run driver in a sedan led to this accident.
"There was an unknown sedan that collided with the rear end of the white pickup truck which swerved into the gray pickup truck and the gray pickup truck and the white pickup truck swerve towards my direction and the female motorist direction," Alexandre said.
The video shows the moment the trooper turns his head seconds before the truck collides with the SUV.
"I was able to hear the screeching sound of the pickup truck and glance to my left and I had a split-second decision to save my life or get hit so I ran to the right immediately as fast as I can," Alexandre said.
The woman who the trooper was assisting suffered injuries to her legs but is expected to survive.
"Assisting her with a flat tire would’ve called the road ranger to help her change the flat tire and I didn’t know that day would be a pivotal moment in my life," Alexandre said.
But the trooper said after the near-death experience, other drivers still weren’t following the move over law which requires drivers to either move over a lane for emergency vehicles or slow down to 20 mph less than the posted speed limit.
"Even after the situation happened there were still vehicles passing the speed limit or even faster than the speed limit right next to where the situation happened," Alexandre said.
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