Shocking photo of Kyle and Jackie O star’s ‘scary’ car crash

A Kyle and Jackie O star suffered a “major” car accident yesterday that had police on the scene saying they’d “never seen anything like this”.

A member of Kyle and Jackie O’s on-air team was involved in a “major” car accident yesterday that caused his vehicle to lift into the air and flip.

Sports presenter Cooper Johns, 25, was driving home on Wednesday afternoon when a taxi swerved into his lane, causing his car to flip.

Recounting the dramatic incident on-air this morning, Johns explained that he had limited memory of the crash itself, which he presumed was due to suffering a concussion.

He said police had told him they’d “never seen anything like this” – because while Johns’ car was totalled, the taxi driver’s vehicle was totally undamaged.

Cooper Johns was lucky to walk away from this collision.

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He explained what had happened to make him come off second best in the collision.

“I’ve clipped his wheel … they say that when the two tires are going forward, his wheel essentially serves as a skate ramp. I’ve hit it [while] accelerating and then I’ve just flipped,” he said on The Kyle and Jackie O Show this morning.

“It happened that quick – it was like I was in space. I felt like Katy Perry!”

Johns said that as the car turned upside down, “everything like was floating in front of me. All the s**t in my glove box, everything. My spare tire that was in the boot flew into the back seat.”

He said the car skidded on its roof before eventually coming to a stop, with him stranded inside. Johns revealed that once he realised he was relatively uninjured, his first instinct was to turn off the song that was playing through the car stereo – ABBA’s disco classic Voulez-Vous.

Police told Cooper (centre) they’d “never seen anything like this”.

The NRL and radio star admitted he scrambled to get ABBA off the car stereo. Picture: NRL Photos

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“I’m upside down and I reach across to my radio to turn it down, because I thought, if the coppers come and drag me out of this thing, I do not want that playing. I was that embarrassed. Being dragged out by emergency services with Voulez-Vous playing!”

Johns managed to free himself, but it was not the most graceful exit – as he unclipped his seatbelt he fell down onto the windshield below.

He said that by this time the taxi driver had come to his aid, helping him out of the vehicle, where emergency services were soon on the scene – thanks to Johns’ iPhone, which had immediately registered he’d been in a crash and had auto-dialled 000 for him.

Johns said he was checked out by emergency services and did not attend hospital, instead waiting 90 minutes for his father, retired NRL player Matthew Johns, to come and collect him.

Sharing a photo of the aftermath of the crash to his Instagram today, Johns conceded that the collision had been “scary stuff” and that he was “glad to get out of it unscathed.”

Originally published as Shocking photo of Kyle and Jackie O star’s ‘scary’ car crash