'I feel lucky:' driver escapes unharmed after wind knocks lamp post onto car

Less than two feet.

That’s all the space there was between Jasmine Olson’s windshield and a large traffic lamp post, after it fell on top of her vehicle early Sunday morning.

Wilson was inside her car, parked at a red light near Quebec Street and Terminal Avenue in Vancouver, when a gust of wind knocked the large metal beam loose.

“At first I didn’t know what had happened, there was a big smash,” said Olson.

The end of the pole just barely

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