He had two choices: Put his life at the mercy of thugs or risk it to escape from their grasp. According to Russian TV, a Moscow man, who was kidnapped, chose the latter by jumping out of a car as it sped down a busy city highway.
Surveillance cameras captured the breathtaking moment the man leaped out of the trunk of a white sedan going at full speed.
A 35-second video released by Russia’s Ren TV shows the escapee rolling several times, with cars stopping a few feet away to avoid hitting him. He is then seen lying motionless on the road as people approach to help out.
A few seconds into the footage, an ambulance arrives to pick up the victim.
As the broadcaster has learned, the daring escape was the conclusion of a crime drama that unfolded days earlier. The man – accompanied by a friend – was confronted by three individuals who demanded he pay up for a rental car.
The two of them were brutally beaten and thrown into the trunk of a KIA Optima, which took off to an undisclosed location. Faced with a do-or-die situation, the daring man managed to open the truck and perform the death-defying move that possibly saved his life.
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Police have dispatched detectives to inquire into the kidnapping drama, it has emerged.
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