Watch A Flying Lincoln Town Car Spectacularly Crash Down San Francisco’s Sanchez Street Stairs

How many times do humans have to learn that full-size Lincolns don’t fly well? In October 1979, American stuntman Kenny Powers (not the one you’re thinking of) tried to fly a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental across the St. Lawrence River with predictable results. Almost 44 years later, media outlet SFist reports that someone sent a Lincoln Town Car off San Francisco’s Sanchez Street stairs, also with predictable results. Oh, and like the infamous Super Jump, this latest incident was captured on video. Take a look:

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a shocking crash, but with pedestrians, traffic, parked cars, and several tons of concrete in the area, this is as close as the Town Car driver could’ve come to sticking the landing. The area was clear of people, the car rotated ass-over-face, a tree helped break the fall, and the only vehicle the Lincoln hit was a second-generation BMW X3 that received a love tap on the bumper and a showering of falling tree debris. With the miracles of modern paintless dent repair and the relative inexpensiveness of plastic parts, there’s a good chance that thing isn’t totaled.

Replying to the many media outlets calling about this:

This was a non-injury collision occurring last night at 7:18 PM.

When Truck 7 #SFFDT07 arrived witnesses stated that: “all the occupants fled the scene”

The crew of Truck 7 confirmed no injuries and assisted a tow truck… https://t.co/8WLpWOmlG4 pic.twitter.com/iRXIaVWuFf

— SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) July 23, 2023

The San Francisco Fire Department has confirmed that this was a no-injury crash both on Twitter, which might not be Twitter anymore, and to SFist, a media outlet whose name can be read two ways. Granted, the no-injury status of this crash might be due to how everyone in the Town Car dipped pretty much as soon as they returned to terra firma. Still, everyone involved walked away, so you didn’t just watch someone die on video. Oh, and speaking of video, Twitter user BlueyAnon posted some footage of the run-up to this Town Car’s fateful end.

Yet another dangerous example of an autonomous vehicle driving recklessly throughout SF streets! Oh, wait a sec… pic.twitter.com/eyqmmzquPA

— BlueyAnon (@BlueyAnon) July 23, 2023

Man, talk about blowing a braking point. Now look, I like playing Driver: San Francisco as much as the next guy, but those scenarios of leaping through Bay Area streets just aren’t realistic. Stunt jumps don’t typically exist in real life for a reason — it’s incredibly easy to get hurt or killed when launching a vehicle through the air, as the landing’s what typically gets you. Everyone involved here, save for perhaps the owner of that BMW X3, is extraordinarily lucky.

If you ever find yourself in San Francisco with a disposable Lincoln Town Car, don’t try this. This is incredibly dumb. Astonishing to watch, but mostly incredibly dumb. I don’t know how someone surpassed the over-street aerial idiocy we saw back when someone jumped a Tesla Model S in LA, but that’s life. It never fails to surprise you, good or bad.

[Hat Tip to Mike!]

(Photo credits: Julia Brown/YouTube)

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