Skidding off the Freeway: Trapped out of Sight

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On a foggy winter’s night in 2023, Matt Reum is driving home along a deserted stretch of freeway… when suddenly disaster strikes. As his truck swerves off the road, he plunges into a ravine underneath a bridge. Pinned within a twisted mass of metal and glass, Matt is helpless. Other drivers are mere metres away but cannot see or hear him. Over the course of the next few days, his efforts to free himself will become increasingly drastic… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	NASCAR on Prime lights up Music City.
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0:17.6	It's December 23 in the Midwestern United States.
0:22.6	Traffic hums along the well-worn asphalt of Interstate 94.
0:28.6	On either side of the freeway, sparse woodland partially conceals views of flat brown fields, industrial towns, factories, and rail depots.
0:40.3	Porter County, Indiana, lies on the easternmost fringes of the Chicago metropolitan area.
0:47.3	Its farmland scored with wide, busy roads, funneling traffic to and from the city. This stretch of I-94, outside the small town of
0:58.2	portage, is unremarkable in almost every way. There's no rest stop here, not even a gas station.
1:05.5	This isn't a place where anyone is supposed to linger.
1:18.6	It's the weekend before Christmas, among the busiest travel days of the year, and the flow of vehicles is uninterrupted in both directions.
1:22.6	A continuous stream of headlights and tail lights.
1:28.3	Few of the drivers pay any attention to the place up ahead where the freeway passes over a narrow creek.
1:35.3	It's a blink and you miss it sort of bridge, no longer than the length of a school bus,
1:40.3	distinguishable only by the concrete safety barriers that obscure the shallow stream
1:45.6	from the view of passing motorists.
1:50.5	Fewer still noticed the spot, about 100 yards before the bridge, where the grass verge
1:55.5	has been scuffed and rutted by a pair of veering tire tracks.
2:03.6	Rain has all but erased the markings.
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