A video shared online this week shows a frightening moment in which a family's car toppled backward on a drawbridge in Belgium.
The incident was shared by Brussels broadcaster VRT, which confirmed two parents and their 1-year-old child were inside the red vehicle when the span of the drawbridge began to rise into the air without warning as a ship passed through, causing the vehicle to slide backward down the road, the Daily Mail reports.
The vehicle then crashed and flipped over, landing on its roof on a closed barrier, trapping the family inside before first responders were able to evacuate all three individuals.
The couple and their child were transported to a Gasthuisberg hospital and treated for injuries, which Commissioner Marc Vranckx confirmed were not suspected to be severe.
Carolien Peelaerts of Flemish Waterway confirmed to a local radio station that the accident is under investigation as local authorities attempt to determine what caused the bridge to raise without warning.
Nationally, a drawbridge accident claimed the life of an 8-year-old girl in Toledo, Ohio last month.
The accident took place on Craig Memorial Bridge on September 11 at 10:00 a.m., according to FOX 19.
Kyla Brown, 8, was pronounced dead at the scene after the vehicle she was riding in the back passenger seat of driven by a 37-year-old woman smashed through the dropping gates as the bridge was raised and crashed into the side of the bridge, according to Toledo Police.