Dashcam footage shows DC Uber ducking bullets during shootout

Frightening dashcam footage shows an Uber driver and his two passengers ducking for cover as bullets ripped through the SUV during a shootout in Washington, DC.

The driver, Omar Al-Furaiji, told local TV stations he was lucky to be alive following the drive-by shooting in the nation’s capital Friday night — after coming to the US to escape conflict in his native Iraq.

Bullets pierced the windshield and driver’s window of Al-Furaiji’s vehicle, Fox 5 DC reported, sharing shocking footage of the SUV.

One bullet even whizzed right through the driver’s headrest.

“This is supposed to be my head, if I didn’t bend down or lay down,” Al-Furaiji told NBC4 Washington of how close he had been to death, pointing at the bullet holes. 

“I mean, it’s, it’s like, it’s not even moving, you know it’s hard to … it’s like, time doesn’t exist. I don’t know, I don’t know how to explain it,” the emotional Uber driver told Fox of how he felt when the violence erupted.

The terrifying shootout happened outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew, which is just nine blocks from the White House.

Footage shows gunfire coming from a silver SUV on Connecticut Avenue before a dark SUV with tinted windows crashes into a dumpster behind Al-Furaiji.

People were seen bolting out of the dark vehicle as someone fires a handgun from the backseat.

But while Al-Furaiji and his passengers were lucky to escape being struck, a man on the street was shot in the back. His condition was not immediately known Thursday.

Two other vehicles in the area were also hit by bullets, police told the local stations.

It was unclear who was targeted in the attack, and the shooters were still at large Thursday.

Al-Furaiji said doctors had removed 15 pieces of glass from his skin and he suffered multiple injuries to his arms and head from the exploding glass.

“I just thank God to survive, because you know it was not easy. I can’t believe I survived as well,” Al-Furaiji, who left a professional job in Iraq as a theater audio technician, told Fox.