WATCH: Video captured a giant spool of cable rolling through a busy Newmarket intersection.
But that was precisely the scene that Eugene Kim stumbled upon on Friday morning as he made his way to a Costco in Newmarket.
Kim was headed westbound along Green Lane Avenue just after 9 a.m. when he arrived at a red light at Yonge Street.Footage of the incident, captured by Kim’s dash camera, shows a giant spool of cable taller than most vehicles slowly rolling across Green Lane Avenue across several live lanes of traffic.
At one point the slow-moving spool nearly comes into a contact with a stopped vehicle, however the driver is seen pulling ahead into traffic just in the nick of time.Kim told CP24.com that the “bizarre” scene appears to have resulted after the spool fell off the back of a transport truck parked further up on Yonge Street.
He said that a telecommunications company has been busy installing fibre optic cable across Newmarket over the last month or so, making the large spools of blue cable a familiar sight for most residents.“It was so bizarre seeing that thing just roll down the street and that car was lucky that they saw it too,” he said. “It was like a comedy show after that. You then see another guy running down to try and retrieve it and a couple other people stepped out to help.
“It was a big thing and it looked like it had quite a bit of momentum already when it rolled down so people could have been hurt,” he said.
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