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WEBVTT OVERPASS AND SURVIVED.THEN HE LED POLICE ON A WILDCHASE, ATTACKED A POLICE DOG,AND THAT IS NOT ALL.A TRUCKER DRIVING THE WRONG WAYWAS ABOUT TO END UP IN HANDCUFFSEARLIER THIS MONTH FOROUTSTANDING WARRANTS, BUT WATCHWHAT HAPPENS NEXT.THE DRIVER TRIPPED OVER ROADDEBRIS AND FELL ABOUT 40 FEETOFF THE OVERPASS.BELLEVUE POLICE RUSHED TO SEARCHFOR THE SUSPECT, WHO AMAZINGLYGOT UP AND RAN.>> I AM IN THE WOODS RIGHT NOW.I HEARD HIM IN THIS AREA.REPORTER: NEWPORT CANINESARRIVED TO HELP, BUT THEN THEMAN OF THE DOG IN A CHOKE HOLD.OFFICERS TASED THE DRIVER ANDHANDCUFFED HIM WHILE THEY WAITEDFOR AMBULANCE, NOT QUITE SUREHOW HE SURVIVED.>> YOU NEED TO STOP ROLLINGAROUND.YOU JUST DROPPED ABOUT 40 FEET.REPORTER: OFFICERS ID THE DRIVERAS A 55-YEAR-OLD FROM FLORIDA.A MAN LUCKY TO BE ALIVE AFTERWHAT STARTED AS A SIMPLE TRAFFICSTOP.>> HE FELL OVER AND IT WAS AFLAT SMACKED RIGHT ON HIS BACK.DO NOT KNOW HOW HE IS STILLLIVING.REPORTER: HE ENDED UP BEINGTRANSPORTED TO UC MEDICAL TO BETREATED FOR HIS INJURIES.OFFICERS IN BELLEVUE SAY HE WAS

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A truck driver who fell off of an Interstate 471 overpass bridge in Northern Kentucky this month, during a traffic stop, survived and continued to run from police. The entire ordeal happened on Dec. 5 around 1 a.m. in Bellevue, Kentucky. Body-camera footage captured the fall and the pursuit that followed.Police said the driver was going the wrong way on 471 when they pulled him over. They then found out the driver had outstanding warrants and attempted to take him into custody. But when the driver saw he was about to be handcuffed, he began to put up a fight. “You're under arrest,” the officer in the body camera video told the man.“For what? What?” the man yelled.The Bellevue police officer lost his grip on the driver, who was wearing a zip-up hoodie, and slipped out. The driver began to run, but tripped over road debris and fell about 40 feet off the overpass.“I need a Newport squad to get under the bridge. Subject resisting fell over the side of the bridge,” the officer shouted into his radio.Bellevue police rushed to search for the man, who amazingly got up after his fall and ran.“I'm in the woods right now. I'm sure you can see my light. I heard him somewhere in this area,” the officer said.Newport’s K-9 arrived on the scene to help and tracked the driver down in the woods, but the man then put the dog in a choke hold.“Get off my dog! Get off my dog! Get off my dog!” the K-9 officer yelled.Officers hit the driver with a Taser and handcuffed him while they waited for an ambulance, not quite sure how the man survived.“Hey man, you need to stop rolling around. You just dropped about 40 feet, alright?” the officer said.The driver was identified as Eugene Lydell, 55, of West Palm Beach, Florida. Officers say he was lucky to have lived, after what started as a simple traffic stop.“I thought he was dead. When we were looking over the side ... he, he was ... I mean, he fell over and it was a flat smack right on his back. I don't know how he's still living,” the officer said.Lydell was transported to St. Elisabeth Hospital in Fort Thomas and then to UC Medical Center to be treated for his injuries. Bellevue police cited Lydell with a misdemeanor resisting arrest charge.