A shocking 2021 video showing an incident featuring an Amazon driver has resurfaced. A video shows the driver, Alexander Evans, doing deliveries on his usual route. Evans was parked in the truck when an Amtrak train ran right into the delivery van – splitting it in half. Evans said the wreck happened seemingly out of nowhere.
“Just air and the pressure. I felt the airbags, and it was just … I didn’t know what to feel, to be honest with you,” he said of the incident in 2021 via Complex.
“Literally it was like one long beep, like a horn from the train, and I put my foot on the gas. I was like, I don’t know how far I’m going to get away from him.”
🚨#WATCH: Shocking video of a Amazon van that was split in half by an oncoming Amtrak train
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Watch this unbelievable moment when an Amazon delivery van was sliced in half by a train. The driver miraculously survived the destructive accident that occurred… pic.twitter.com/KDIHg2rsbq
Twitter Reacts To Shocking Amazon Video
Of course, the resurfaced video went viral on social media. Twitter users went off with their reactions.
“Split in half is generous. It’s a miracle he survived. Just a few inches and this would be a very different story,” one user said.
“Imagine calling your manager and saying “Hey my truck just got split in half by a train,” another added.
“So there were no gates to alert him a train was coming? Looks like he saw it coming and tried to dodge it but it was too late and the fact the train kept going and didn’t stop AT ALL,” another said.
Jeff Bezos Predicts Future In 2021 Interview
Amazon has become one of the most successful companies ever. And that should not come as a surprise. You can purchase anything on their website from a water bottle to a television and have it delivered to your home in hours. The company’s rise to success seemingly came out of nowhere. But in a 1997 interview with Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, the billionaire predicted the success of the company.
“When you have that many items, you can literally build a store online that couldn’t exist any other way. That’s important right now because the web is still an infant technology. Basically, right now, if you can do things using a more traditional method, you probably should do them using the traditional method,” Bezos said.
“This is Day 1, the very beginning. This is the Kittyhawk stage of electronic commerce.”