ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A driver is lucky to be alive after his car got wedged completely underneath a guide rail on the Inner Loop.

Dlano Frazier had been driving along University Avenue when he hit a curb, barreled through fencing, and slid down an embankment, police say.

His car finally stopped after the guide rail shaved off the entire hood. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Frazier walked away unharmed but was charged with DWI.

News10NBC spoke with Steve Eimers, a man from Fredonia who lost his daughter in a crash involving a guide rail. Since his daughter’s death, Eimers has been championing legislation for guide rails with better, safer designs.

“In this type of impact we want to see redirection back out onto the roadway. The person for some reason has left the roadway now we want to get them back on. We don’t want to see leaving the roadway be a death sentence,” Eimers said. “So guiding like that would be the ideal outcome. In this case that did not happen, and we were fortunate that person was not decapitated.”

News10NBC reached out to the New York Department of Transportation and asked if the way the rail stopped Frazier’s car was the desired outcome and if the car was supposed to get wedged underneath the rail. A spokesperson said they can’t comment on a crash under investigation but safety is always a priority.

Eimers shared crash data from the University of Nebraska this year showing that electric cars are often much heavier than regular cars — too heavy, in fact, for guide rails to be effective.

News10NBC also asked the New York DOT what it’s doing to get ahead of this potential guide rail issue as electric cars become more common on the roads. The spokesperson declined to comment on that as well.

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