BOSTON (WHDH) — Emergency crews responded to a restaurant in Charlestown found a car dangling from a pier Wednesday night.
Video from Sky7 HD showed a vehicle that apparently jumped a wall in the parking lot of the Pier 6 restaurant near the Navy Yard.
Responders uprighted the vehicle, which was saved from plunging into the water by a small dock.
The driver of the vehicle says he was attempting to park and do a three-point turn when he hit the wrong peddle. He says he’s grateful to the people who ran to help him and a female passenger.
“They were the heroes,” he said. “They came down instantly and saved us.”
“They were turning around and hit the gas by accident, and that caused the car to go over the edge of the pier,” said Brian Alkins of the Boston Fire Department.
The accident drew a large crowd during a busy time of night around Pier 6.
“I always wondered if one day something might make a mistake and go over,” Dennis Chateauneuf said.
No injuries were reported.
Report of a suv hanging off the pier at Pier6 Restaurant at 1 Eighth St Charlestown. Report of no one in the car and no injuries pic.twitter.com/iouz2Md5LZ
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) November 14, 2018
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