Dog Survives After Jumping onto Busy Los Angeles Freeway

A terrifying video captured the moment a pup fell out of a moving vehicle on the busy 101 Freeway.

At first glance, the situation appears dire for the puppy as a semi-truck and several other vehicles close in just seconds after the dog slams onto the freeway, but somehow, Sophie makes it out alive.

“I’ll be honest, I think someone farted in the car, I don’t know if it was the dog or someone, but we rolled down the window and she was just poking her out, smelling just like every dog,” said Ryan Cramer, who was driving when Sophie leapt into oncoming traffic. “She literally just fired out of the car.”

The video, captured by his Tesla, is quite disturbing, as it shows Sophie’s impact on the road before she tumbles several times as a big rig closes in on where she came to a stop. The truck driver was able to slow down enough that the dog made it off the road, where the driver of the car behind Cramer picked her up.

Cramer said, “I see her on the side and fortunately a gentleman behind me had stopped also.”

They took her to the veterinarian following the incident. While she did suffer a fractured hip, she escaped without any other injuries, and eight weeks of recovery later, she seems to be thriving as any puppy would.

“She has no internal bleeding. She has no broken ribs.”

While the Cramer family was initially fostering Sophie to help with overcrowding at local shelters, they decided that their connection through the wild event was enough for them to bring her home for good.

“I’ve been begging for a puppy. That was my dream come true,” said one of Cramer’s three daughters.

Cramer has one suggestion for other dog owners: make sure your dog is secure before opening any windows or doors because you never know what might happen.