Jaw-dropping video captured the moment a teen driver backed his truck off a Massachusetts pier – sending the pickup plunging into the water and narrowly missing his dad’s boat.
The dramatic ordeal began when the unidentified teen, who was delivering fish bait at the Green Harbor Town Pier in Marshfield on Sunday morning, suddenly sped up while reversing his white Ford truck, WHDH reported.
Stunned witnesses watched as the truck broke through the dock’s wooden barrier and plummeted into the water below.
The truck appeared to topple over as it dropped 15 feet off the dock, barely missing his father’s boat while the man was on board.
Miraculously, the teen was able to escape through the truck’s back window and swim to the side of the pier, where fishermen pulled him to safety.
After he returned to the dock, the driver was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
He did not sustain any serious injuries.
Marshfield police told WHDH that the teen’s father was ‘not injured at all’ from the nearly tragic event.
‘Luckily, the father wasn’t near where the truck landed, so neither of them got hurt too badly,’ one witness told the outlet.
The witness also said the truck had sunk so deep into the water that it was no longer visible when a dive team came to pull it out.
Photos and video showed the destroyed truck being hauled out of the water as people gathered along the dock to watch.
‘I was just so surprised,’ one little girl told WHDH.
‘I didn’t know that it was going to be crashed in and that the roof was going to be caved in, I thought it was just going to be cracked and all broken.’
Police deemed the crash an accident, though it is unclear exactly what caused the teen driver to back up off the dock.
The Marshfield Police Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
Green Harbor Town Pier, also known as the Marshfield Town Pier, is located by the mouth of the Green Harbor River.
Most of the town’s commercial fishing fleet is based at the pier.
These vessels mainly include inshore lobster boats, according to the North and South Rivers Watershed Association.