CHARLOTTE — A New York native who has lived in Charlotte for exactly four months assured his neighbors they were “dramatically overreacting” moments before his vehicle slid quietly and without ceremony into a roadside ditch along I-77 near the Tyvola Road exit Sunday morning.
“It’s cute how you guys panic,” Henderson said. “In Buffalo, we wouldn’t even close schools for this. You just have to know how to feather the gas. It’s physics. Northerners understand physics. You guys just understand biscuits.”
Moments later, Henderson’s Subaru slowly drifted across both lanes of traffic, rotated 180 degrees in a graceful, silent ballet, and gently deposited itself backward into a drainage ditch, coming to rest at a 45-degree angle.
“He seemed very calm,” said one local resident who witnessed the incident while attempting to merge. “He was mid-sentence about how he’s seen worse when the car just… stopped being where it was supposed to be.”
At press time, Henderson was still in the ditch, posting an Instagram Story captioned “Charlotte drivers are the worst,” while waiting for a tow truck that authorities confirmed would not arrive until Tuesday.
