Dramatic surveillance video from the Ohio Department of Transportation has captured a heart-stopping near-miss that left officials shaken. On the night of August 3, 2026, a person wearing a yellow safety vest stood beside a disabled red car on the shoulder of a busy highway when an oncoming vehicle barreled straight toward them. In a split-second decision, the individual leapt onto a concrete barrier just moments before the vehicle slammed into the stalled car. One official who reviewed the footage described it as “the closest call I’ve ever seen.”

The video shows high-speed traffic continuing to flow past the scene, with multiple vehicles even driving on the shoulder itself. The disabled car sat vulnerable under the nighttime lights as the person scrambled for safety. The concrete barrier proved to be the only thing standing between the individual and a potentially fatal impact. Viewers can clearly see how little time existed between the leap and the collision that followed.