Shocking moment Fiat 500 flips over five times and flies into the air after driver loses control<br /><br />Horrific footage shows the moment a Fiat 500 flipped over five times in a crash<br /><br />The driver had swerved out of the way of another car and flew into the air<br /><br />Shocking footage shows the moment a Fiat 500 flipped over five times and soared through the air after the driver lost control of the vehicle.<br /><br />Jackson Davis, 20, flipped his car over numerous times and it went several feet in the air after he lost control while trying to avoid a collision with another car.<br /><br />Both Davis and his passenger, who lost consciousness and woke up while the car was still spinning, escaped serious injury.<br /><br />Horrific footage of the accident shows the car fly off before crashing to the ground in September last year.<br /><br />Skipton Magistrates Court heard how emergency services rushed to West Road in Carleton, north Yorkshire following a call to police just before 5pm.<br /><br />A witness told the court they believed the Fiat was travelling at 'some speed' and had not seemed 'completely settled' on the road.<br /><br />They also described how the car appeared to become 'airborne'.<br /><br />Davis, who admitted driving without due care and attention, disputed that he had been travelling at a speed but accepted that he had lost control of the vehicle.<br /><br />In mitigation, Keith Blackwell said it had been a shocking event but that Davis, of Colne, Lancashire has made a full recovery despite being injured.<br /><br />Mr Blackwell also said a number of 'conspiratorial circumstances' on the day had come together to cause the accident, including the location and nature of the road.<br /><br />He said: 'He was driving along the road and there was another vehicle coming in the opposite direction.<br /><br />'He took steps not to collide with it.<br /><br />'In those particular circumstances, he began to lose control of the car.<br /><br />He went off the road and came to grief at the side of the road.<br /><br />'This was not a case of high speed, but he [Davis] does accept he lost control of the vehicle.'<br /><br />Mr Blackwell also said that Davis, a production planner for an aerospace company, had continued to drive since the incident and had no further incidents.<br /><br />He said: 'He deeply regrets what happened, he was injured, but has made a full recovery.'
