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A wayward Waymo wildly crashed into several parked cars while careening downhill in Echo Park – narrowly missing mowing down two bystanders, video shows.

The Sunday morning smash-up happened around 11 a.m. on Lilac Place near Dodger Stadium, with doorbell-cam footage showing the manually driven vehicle speeding down the steep, narrow street and sideswiping several cars, KTLA reported.

Jorge DonantonioJorge Donantonio

Waymo confirmed to The Post that an an “autonomous specialist” was driving the car in manual mode when it left the roadway and struck several parked cars. There were no customers inside the vehicle at the time.

Jorge Donantonio’s mother and brother were outside at the time – and in harm’s way.

“My brother was able to push my mom out of the way before the car,” he said. “Luckily, they’re OK.”

Donantonio said both his mom’s and neighbor’s cars were struck.

“You can see from the video — the Waymo lost control down the street and it just happened to hit my mama’s car,” he told KTLA.

The driver exited the vehicle on his own, and there were no reported injuries.


  The crash happened around 11 a.m. Tuesday in Echo Park near Dodger Stadium. Jorge Donantonio The crash happened around 11 a.m. Tuesday in Echo Park near Dodger Stadium. Jorge Donantonio

“The gentleman — it was a Waymo engineering car — so they went over to check on him. He was OK,” Donantonio said. “They checked [my mother] out too. She was OK — high blood pressure, little stuff like that — but totally fine.”

Donantonio said his one-way street is accustomed to traffic from Dodger Stadium events – and that Waymos have crashed there before.

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