VIDEO: Man claiming to be high on mushrooms crashes, goes airborne at Kennesaw gas station

KENNESAW, Ga. — A driver who says he was tripping on psychedelic mushrooms veered off the road and went airborne before crashing at a gas station.

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Channel 2′s Tom Regan was at a Texaco station in Kennesaw where the crash happened around 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

A clerk said that he heard a loud crash as the Cadillac went airborne and dropped near a gas pump, which could have caused an explosion. Minutes later, the driver climbed through the sunroof of the wrecked vehicle and ran into the store in a panic, saying that he was being followed.

“The fellow was completely paranoid, out of it,” the clerk said. “He was completely out of it.”

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The clerk tried to keep the man, later identified as 23-year-old Noah Washington, calm while he called for help.

Police spokesman David Buchanan said that when they got to the scene, Washington was on his knees and begging to be taken into custody.

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“(He said) someone was following him, chasing him and trying to kill him,” Buchanan said. “But he couldn’t describe who and what they looked like and why they were doing it.”

Washington told medics that came to the scene that he had eaten six mushroom before getting behind the wheel. He said he was coming from his parents’ house in Woodstock.

“He thought someone was going to kill him, but he could have killed someone himself,” Buchanan said.

Washington has been released on bond, but is facing numerous charges including driving under the influence of drugs.

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