Driver Opens Up About Surviving 70-Foot Drop On 'Good Morning America'

The driver who survived a 70-foot drop from an interstate ramp onto a highway in Wisconsin, opened up about the unbelievable accident on Good Morning America.

Richard Lee Oliver appeared on GMA on Thursday morning (February 11), nearly a week after walking away from the drop onto the Zoo interchange in Milwaukee.

Oliver made a virtual appearance on the show with his fiancé, Candice, speaking from his hospital bed.

“There was just too much snow on the side of the road…there’s no controlling a vehicle of any kind,” Oliver told GMA.

Oliver was on his way to his mother’s house when his truck “traveled up a snowbank (and) proceeded over the barrier wall and descended 70 feet down onto the westbound I-94 distress lane,” according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

Here's the full statement from Saturday morning (February 6).

“Today at approximately 9:49a.m. MCSO responded to a one-car personal injury crash westboundI-94 just east of I-41 in the Zoo Interchange. A red pickup truck skidded off the East to the SouthZoo Interchange ramp and landed in the direction of the I-94 westbound through traffic. When deputies arrived, they found the red pickup upright in the right distress lane of the westbound I-94 lanes. Two citizens were on the scene providing aid to the lone occupant. The driver was conscious and breathing and did not show signs of impairment. A preliminary investigation indicated the driver was driving on the ramp from the East to the South in the Zoo Interchange when he lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle traveled up a snowbank proceeded over the barrier wall and descended 70 feet down onto the westbound I-94 distress lane. The Milwaukee Fire Department arrived on the scene and conveyed the driver to a local hospital.”

Two bystanders stopped to help Oliver, who told GMA that one of them helped him call his mom “just in case I wasn’t going to make it.”

Candice added that, especially with the couple’s 6-month-old, she’s “thankful” Oliver is alive and that no one else was hurt in the accident.

Watch the interview here.

Photo: Wisconsin Department of Transportation