The black Mercedes-Benz was traveling south on I-95 just before 7 p.m. and exited the highway at a high rate of speed, according to police.
That's when the driver lost control.
The car flew off the exit ramp, barreled through a row of bushes, and landed 50 feet away, smacking against a house on Pelham Bay Park West.
"I was like, 'is this a movie,' what's going on," one witness said.
The man driving the vehicle was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.
A woman in the passenger seat was wearing her seatbelt and suffered a broken leg.
"She was just crying," a witness said. "She got out of the car, she was crying."
The house that car struck sits in a small neighborhood near the Westchester County line.
The off-ramp connects the southbound side of I-95 to the southbound lanes of the Hutchinson River Parkway.
Neighbors say it isn't the first time a car has lost control on the ramp and flown through the bushes nearby.
Police are investigating if drugs or alcohol were a factor.
But investigators say one thing is clear: if the driver had been wearing a seatbelt, he very likely could have survived.
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