Video: The Sleepy Cabbie
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Story by Mark Roth
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jamie Marlowe can still remember his amazement.
Looking at the mangled remains of the car owned by his company, Yellow Cab of Huntington, W.Va., Mr. Marlowe couldn't believe his driver had survived the crash, let alone been able to write his own accident report and go home at the end of his shift.
The driver never worked for Yellow Cab again, but his accident has become a permanent fixture on the Internet under the title "Sleepy Cabbie."
Because Mr. Marlowe uses the DriveCam technology in his cabs, with one camera pointing at the driver and another out toward the road, he was quickly able to tell the driver had fallen asleep before the accident.
The driver was heading west on Interstate 64 early one Sunday morning when he nodded off, veered right into a guard rail and then careened back across the highway, with the car landing on its roof in the median strip.
The DriveCam camera captures the whole incident, including the driver's miraculous scratch-free survival after he is flung partially through a back window.
DriveCam is used by several cab companies because it not only can monitor drivers but can record assaults on them. Mr. Marlowe said he sent the accident video to the company for processing, and that it leaked onto the Internet after that.
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