Utility truck goes airborne after being rear-end by semi-trailer truck — narrowly misses a Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy on a traffic stop.
A dramatic video shows a truck go airborne truck — flying between two stopped cars after being rear-ended on Interstate 80.
Two sheriff’s deputies and a state trooper were on the scene of the traffic stop.
Police were working on another crash when a semi-trailer truck hit the utility pickup truck, which propelled it flying between a sheriff’s deputy vehicle and a state patrol cruiser.
The Iowa state trooper was transported to the hospital where he was treated and released for minor injuries.
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