WATCH: Driver spectacularly misjudges distance while trying to jump across bridge gap

A Dutch man had a miraculous escape after a crazy attempt to jump his car across a retracting bridge.

The impatient 56-year-old motorist was captured on CCTV as he tried to make it across the gap while the bridge was still closing.

He misjudges the distance, smashing his car into the side of the closing bridge and ends up in the river.