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911 Call of Man Clinging to Car Hood: ‘Someone’s Trying to Steal My Car’

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A man clung to the hood of a speeding Mercedes on I-95 and called 911 to save his own life.

South Florida authorities released the 911 audio in June 2018 of a terrifying ordeal that played out on the southbound express lanes of Interstate 95 near Miami. Junior Francis, 22, held onto the hood of a black Mercedes-Benz traveling roughly 70 mph while begging a dispatcher for help. The car covered close to 19 miles before police finally intervened.

• Junior Francis, 22, rode on the hood of a Mercedes-Benz going 70 mph down I-95 south near Miami on a Sunday night around 8 p.m.
• He stayed on the phone with 911 for the entire 19-mile stretch, at one point admitting he had no idea where he was.
• Police arrested the driver, 24-year-old Patresha Isidore, that night; a bystander named Daniel Midah recorded video and also called 911.

The Call That Captured the Chaos

The recording starts with Francis already in a full-blown crisis. “My life is actually in danger. I’m on the roof of my car, someone is driving,” he told the dispatcher, his voice tight but controlled given the circumstances. When the operator pressed him for his location, he had nothing concrete to offer, telling her flatly that he didn’t even know where he was as the Mercedes kept moving down the highway.

Through the ordeal, Francis could be heard yelling directly at the driver through the windshield, trying to get the car to stop before something worse happened. “Stop the car! Stop the car! You’re going too fast!” he shouted, according to the audio released by authorities. The exchange painted a picture of a man trying to negotiate his own survival in real time while still relaying details to the 911 operator.

“Stop the car! Stop the car! You’re going too fast!”

A Witness Rides Alongside

Daniel Midah, a driver in a neighboring lane, ended up with a front-row seat to the entire spectacle. He pulled out his phone and started recording as the Mercedes tore down the express lanes, capturing Francis — dressed in a white tank top and black shorts — holding on with one hand while talking on his phone with the other.

Midah later described Francis as appearing surprisingly calm given the speed and danger, and said it looked like the driver and passenger inside the car were communicating with Francis through the windshield during the chase. Midah didn’t just film the moment; he also called 911 himself to report the hazard unfolding a few feet from his own car, giving dispatchers a second source confirming exactly where the Mercedes was headed.

The Arrest and the Aftermath

Police caught up with the Mercedes that night and took the driver into custody. She was identified as 24-year-old Patresha Isidore. Francis survived the ordeal without being thrown from the hood, a fact that owes as much to his grip as to the eventual intervention from law enforcement along the corridor.

The footage and 911 audio quickly circulated once released, landing alongside a growing pile of dashcam and dispatch recordings that show just how much can go wrong on a highway in a matter of minutes — the kind of real-time, caught-on-camera chaos that also turned up in dashcam footage of a cash van crew under attack from robbers. It’s the same raw, unscripted tension that keeps making the rounds in clip collections like moments people won’t believe were caught on camera.

Isidore’s arrest closed out the immediate incident, but the 911 call itself is what stuck — a man narrating his own emergency in real time, unsure of his location, watching mile markers blur by on a car he didn’t want to leave and couldn’t safely get off of.