The Navy officer whose truck flew 50-feet off a San Diego freeway overpass is speaking out for the first time since the crash.
Navy First Class Petty Officer Kenneth Freudenvoll survived seven deployments, but he says he didn't think he'd make it out of his truck alive.
The 28-year-old husband and father told San Diego's 10News:
"I had hit the right side wall and it shot me across and that's when I went over and I was like … I just thought to myself, 'I am never going to see my family again and I am never going to see my unborn child.'"
Freudenvoll's wife is pregnant with their second child. The couple also has 5-year-old son, Jacob.
The horrific crash took place on Sept. 21, when the California Highway Patrol says a Ford Excursion driven by a 20-year-old unlicensed and uninsured driver named Jose Uribe hit Freudenvoll's truck, sending it over the guardrail and down to the parking lot of the Dave and Buster's restaurant below.
San Diego TV station NBC7 reports the crash left Freudenvoll with injuries:
The fall obliterated a portion of Freudenvoll’s lower spine, crushing his second and fourth vertebrae.
Although still wheelchair-bound, Freudenvoll hopes to make it to Uribe's first court hearing on Nov. 5. The D.A. has charged Uribe with felony hit-and-run and driving without a license, a misdemeanor.
