--- title: Airborne Truck Almost Hits Iowa Trooper description: While he was writing up an accident report, this Iowa state trooper almost became subject of another one. In dashboard cam video released by the... canonical: https://time.com/30409/watch-truck-flies-off-highway-nearly-hits-a-cop/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-19T16:36:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:56.783Z og:title: WATCH: Truck Flies Off Highway, Nearly Hits a Cop og:description: While he was writing up an accident report, this Iowa state trooper almost became subject of another one. In dashboard cam video released by the... og:url: https://time.com/30409/watch-truck-flies-off-highway-nearly-hits-a-cop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c1cfd2f9333bbbb/69868624f983e7745504cd22/tout12806.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Careening Car og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Truck Flies Off Highway, Nearly Hits a Cop twitter:description: While he was writing up an accident report, this Iowa state trooper almost became subject of another one. In dashboard cam video released by the... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c1cfd2f9333bbbb/69868624f983e7745504cd22/tout12806.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WATCH: Truck Flies Off Highway, Nearly Hits a Cop by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 19, 2014 4:36 PM UTC  An Iowa State Trooper and his deputies just miss a flying car. An Iowa State Trooper and his deputies just miss a flying car. by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 19, 2014 4:36 PM UTC While he was writing up an accident report, this Iowa state trooper almost became subject of another one. In dashboard cam video released by the Johnson County Sheriff’s office, an airborne truck does not slow down when approaching the crash scene, flies off the road into a ditch, hits the stopped car and grazes the trooper and his deputies. Moments after the near-miss, one of the cops has the wherewithal to say — in a deadpan way — “I’m going to go check on that guy.” The driver suffered a minor cut on his forehead, and the state trooper went to the hospital with minor injuries. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/30409/watch-truck-flies-off-highway-nearly-hits-a-cop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/30409/watch-truck-flies-off-highway-nearly-hits-a-cop/"},"headline":"WATCH: Truck Flies Off Highway, Nearly Hits a Cop","datePublished":"2014-03-19T16:36:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:56.783Z","description":"While he was writing up an accident report, this Iowa state trooper almost became subject of another one. In dashboard cam video released by the...","url":"https://time.com/30409/watch-truck-flies-off-highway-nearly-hits-a-cop/","keywords":["Newsfeed","nation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c1cfd2f9333bbbb/69868624f983e7745504cd22/tout12806.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c1cfd2f9333bbbb/69868624f983e7745504cd22/tout12806.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Careening Car","caption":"An Iowa State Trooper and his deputies just miss a flying car.","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/30409/watch-truck-flies-off-highway-nearly-hits-a-cop/","name":"WATCH: Truck Flies Off Highway, Nearly Hits a Cop"}}]}] ```