The Taconic State Parkway is not the kind of road you want to be testing your limits on, and one 22-year-old from the Bronx found that out the hard way on a rainy Saturday. Mamadou Camara was behind the wheel of a Corvette when torrential rain turned the narrow, winding highway into something out of a driver’s nightmare. What happened next was the kind of crash that makes you grateful seatbelts exist.
According to New York State Police, Camara lost control of the Corvette in Putnam Valley, and the car ended up wedged beneath the center-median guardrail. That is not a sentence most drivers ever want associated with their Saturday afternoon plans. The vehicle was described as demolished, which tells you just about everything you need to know about the force of the impact.
Here is where things take a turn toward the miraculous: Camara got out of the car on his own. After a crash that left the Corvette pinned under a guardrail, he was able to walk away under his own power. Emergency responders from the Putnam Valley Fire Department, the Putnam Valley Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and a Putnam Empress Paramedic all responded to the scene and triaged him on the spot before getting him transported to a local hospital…