The driver of this BMW had a lucky escape after flipping the car on Stanmore Road during wet weather. Picture: Hearne Bill Source: The Daily Telegraph
A DRIVER was lucky to walk away with minor injuries after flipping his BMW onto its roof during a torrential downpour in Sydney?s inner west last night.
Just after midnight residents of Stanmore Road in Stanmore were woken by a loud crash. They came outside to find a 41-year-old man struggling out the door of his totalled luxury car.
"The guy crawled out and the car was full of smoke, he thought [he] was going to die if it caught fire and exploded," nearby resident Dora Gee said.
"He’s so lucky, he’s a lucky man."
The smash occurred after the BMW was traveling side by side with another car which clipped it, forcing it to mount the curb and collide with a tree, spinning it 180 degrees and flipping it onto its roof police said.
Another car was seen driving from the scene of the crash with no details of its make or registration with one witness describing it as "hotted up".
Residents of the street said crashes were a regular occurrence with a pedestrian killed just down the road when he was run over by a taxi in 2009.
"There’ve been a few night time crashes; people speed up and down here all the time," Mrs Gee said.
Witnesses tried to keep the man from falling asleep while they waited for an ambulance to arrive and reported that his legs were hurting but he was otherwise okay.
The 41-year-old driver was taken to RPA Hospital for mandatory blood and urine tests where he remains under observation with police yet to question him about the other car.
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