Night Friday 22 December, a Falcon 9 rocket from the US company SpaceX took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, a military base in the county of Santa Barbara, California, offering a majestic sight to many witnesses of the incident.

At the same time, the camera of a car traveling on a motorway recorded a pile of three vehicles, while the Falcon 9 continued to go up in the dark sky. An accident apparently caused a moment of inattention of a driver, which broke away from the view of the rocket.