Video: Worker’s truck hit by suspected OVI driver on I-71

*The above video shows the crash happen on the highway Tuesday morning*

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The victim in an overnight crash is speaking out to Fox 8 News hours after an alleged drunk driver smashed into his emergency vehicle.

“I’ve got a contusion, scraping of the skin, a little hematoma on the back of my head, but the headache is pretty much gone now,“ said 63-year-old Rufus Kilpatrick of Parma.

Kilpatrick, who is a volunteer North Coast emergency services driver, was helping on the side of the road when he said the crash happened in a flash. 

“The vehicle was coming so fast around around that curve, I would say 80 miles an hour.” 

The crash happened early Tuesday morning on I-71 north at Denison Avenue.  

Investigators said 31-year-old Caitlyn Jones slammed into the back of Kilpatrick’s truck causing her car to spin out of control.

Troopers said she had a blood alcohol level of .170, and was charged with OVI and driving with a suspended license.

Kilpatrick, who has been driving trucks for more than three decades, was trapped inside his vehicle but was able to crawl out of the wreckage through a passenger side window.  

This crash is hitting too close to home for Kilpatrick who said his older brother was killed in a drunk driving accident 50 years ago this Saturday.