Ah, Prescott, Arizona…I miss that place. I lived there three years and loved just about every day I was there. Don’t mistake Prescott for “cactus and lizards and HOLY HELL IT’S HOT” Arizona…that’s Phoenix and south. Prescott is on the top of the Mogollon Rim, making it high desert. Honestly, Prescott feels like a lot like Colorado: rocky granite outcroppings everywhere in semi-mountainous terrain. The roads are great, the lanes are wide, and people drive well for the most part…save for some idiot in a gray-green Mustang a few years back, or so I’ve heard. The statute of limitations has to run out sometime, right?

I can’t claim to have a “close call” that wasn’t your typical intersection incident, where someone leaps before they bothered to look and you drill the brakes for your life. But on October 7th, 2018, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and Prescott Fire Department got to get an eyeful of one of the most dramatic accident scenes I’ve seen pictures of in recent memory. The full report is below, but for the too long/didn’t read crowd, a black truck that ran from the scene pushed the Mazda truck into a black car before the truck, according to the driver, did something akin to the corkscrew jump from “The Man With The Golden Gun” before landing dead-nuts on top of a Honda. Nobody who was at the scene of the accident was injured, which the authorities attribute to the use of seatbelts.

The corkscrew jump that the Hornet did in the Bond film was one of the first computer-modeled jumps, the Astro-Spiral jump that had been developed a few years before the 1975 film, and that that had been a popular attraction for years. I say again: computer modeled. What you are seeing here is the most successful non-prepared version of that stunt that added on with the stunt vehicle perched on top of another vehicle in the granite hills of Northern Arizona.

What are the odds?