MCKINNEY, Texas — From the air, it stole your breath. Below — a tow truck barely clinging to the southbound concrete barrier of the Sam Rayburn Tollway after a crash near Hardin Boulevard.

McKinney firefighters sprinted to save 32-year-old Martin Briones-Vazquez before gravity did.

His brother, Oscar Vazquez, was still on the way when the call came in from family. “She called me on the way here,” Oscar said. “It’s a little worse than we thought. He’s hanging off a bridge.”

“Hanging off a bridge doesn’t sound good at all, right?”

Texas DPS said Briones-Vazquez was hauling two vehicles on a flatbed trailer when he came upon a disabled car in the roadway. He swerved to avoid a collision but struck the stalled vehicle and the concrete barrier — leaving his cab hanging over the edge.

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