The mystery of China's levitating cars solved

Mystery of China's levitating cars solved

Thousands shared the video of the seemingly gravity-defying accident.

But the answer, it turns out, is much more pedestrian. A fallen cable wire had gotten tangled up in the street cleaner vehicle visible to the right side of the screen, creating a tripwire.

"I was driving slowly straight ahead," a driver of the van told CCTV. "All of a sudden, I was lifted up. The street cleaner car snagged on the wire. The wire just so happened to be underneath our car and it sent us flying."

Watch the video below