A broken axle on a sedan led to perhaps the craziest towing video in recent memory.
On Monday afternoon, after a Saab broke down on the Interstate 610 loop in Texas, the driver called his girlfriend for help towing the vehicle as they could not afford a towing company, according to ABC Houston affiliate KTRK TV.
The couple apparently decided to tow the vehicle using a chain, but, at some point, an axel on the Saab broke, causing it to swerve back and forth between various freeway lanes, according to CBS affiliate KHOU TV.
“It was like err err, like losing control, I heard when his tire blew out, just lots of swerving,” Ken Collins, who witnessed the terrifying tow job, told the station.
TikTok user @cindyibarra22 posted a video showing how Mr. Tow’s Wild Ride looked from a Houston office building.
Video taken by X account @StormChaserHTX shows how the swerving looked to drivers on the road. Spoiler alert: It’s terrifying.
According to Collins, the two cars eventually stopped on a feeder road and a woman came out of the SUV while a man exited the blue Saab.
“It was crazy, I thought they was [about to] fight, I thought he was going to jump on the driver. He was yelling at the lady, he hit his hood,” Collins said.
Although the woman was trying to talk to the man, Collins said, “He didn’t want to hear nothing of it. He was like, ‘you messed up my car, you [messed] up my car.’”
Collins is still perplexed why the two drivers decided to pull the Saab from the back.
“Normally, on a chain you pull a car from the front but that’s my only thought. Why did they pull it from the back, especially on the freeway?” he said.
“It looked like a scene from ′Fast & Furious,’” David Chairez, who was driving with a co-worker when they saw the terrifying tow job, told KTRK. “That was very reckless, and that was very dangerous.”
To make matters worse, Chairez said the woman driving the SUV appeared to be laughing throughout the incident, adding, “To see something like this, this is not normal.”
Although the incident definitely caused traffic issues, Houston Police did not cite either driver for their method of vehicle towing. The man was arrested for an active warrant from Georgia, according to KTRK TV.