Shocking footage shows the moment a truck veers off the highway before narrowly missing a driver.
The incident happened on December 5 on a major highway near Dallas, and the motorist happened to capture it on a dashcam.
Footage shows how the driver avoided being hit by the big truck in just a split second – and how the 18-wheeler suddenly appeared in front of him after running off the road above.
The truck was driven off an overpass, officers later said of the near miss that occurred in Royse City, a suburb just outside Dallas, and slid down a slope onto the road where the driver drove down at a high rate of speed.
In a scene straight out of Terminator 2, the driver stops just in time, and the truck driver – miraculously – walks away largely unscathed.
The incident happened last month on a prominent highway near Dallas, and the motorist happened to capture it on a dashcam
It shows how he avoids being hit by just a split second – and how the 18-wheeler suddenly appeared in front of him after running off the road above
“My father’s colleague captured this on his dashcam,” Redditor wrote about the shock, sharing the images Friday to the subreddit CrazyF**ingVideos.
“He absolutely had the luckiest timing in the world,” the poster continued.
“What exactly do you think happened?”
While the exact cause of the crash remains unknown, police said in a statement that the accident happened on I-30 at FM 35, when the semi was traveling westbound on the 366-mile stretch of road before suddenly veering and crashing into the dike collided. seen in the video.
Somehow the truck driver, who was pinned under the bridge overhead, walked away with only minor injuries, police said.
However, the entire front of his rig was destroyed.
The Redditor — who did not give his or his father’s name — confirmed the crash site in a reply to another stunned Reddit user, writing, “It’s off I-30.”
In other comments, the Reddit user revealed that his family lives in Dallas – a place notorious for tractor-trailer accidents, especially on heavily traveled highways.
Just last month, crews were called to a stretch of I-35 to rescue a Dallas tucker that found itself dangling off a bridge after an accident, causing massive traffic delays.
That same day, a three-truck crash on Highway 31 just outside Dallas left one dead and four injured.
According to police, the accident happened after one of the truck drivers failed to stay in one lane.
He was sent off an overpass, police said later – and is seen sliding down a slope and onto the road where the driver drives down at high speed
In a scene straight out of Terminator 2, the driver stops just in time, after which the truck driver – miraculously – walks away largely unscathed
Police, meanwhile, revealed that the accident occurred on December 5 in Royse City, a suburb just outside Dallas
Just a week earlier, a new 18-wheeler crashed on the Central Expressway in Dallas, causing a large vehicle to fall from an overpass onto the street below, fatally striking a pedestrian.
According to reports, the man was walking on the north side of the roadway when he was struck by the stray semi.
That same day, a few miles north, two people died after a pickup truck crashed into a pillar, also in Dallas.
That said, given the amount of truck traffic Texas receives, the string of incidents is not unusual for the Lone Star State.
And with its maze of highways and intersecting roads, Dallas is one of the state’s most dangerous locations for truck drivers. According to local law firm Lovins Trosclair, there were 31 fatalities in 27 fatal truck accidents in 2015.
Zehl and Associates recently attributed the frequency of truck accidents in the city to drivers who were speeding, impaired or simply not paying attention.
Texas trucks also often run on diesel fuel, which, while cheaper, can cause malfunctions that make it difficult for drivers to stop.
The incident, while alarming, is not entirely unusual. Last month, crews were called to a stretch of I-35 to rescue a Dallas Tucker after he was left dangling from a bridge following a crash.
Redditor c0rrupti0n explained this while thinking about possible causes for the crash that nearly killed his father’s co-worker.
“Diesel engines sometimes (but rarely) work out and start consuming extra fuel,” the poster wrote, after receiving more than 2,000 votes within hours.
“This creates crazy high RPM and crazy high power that the driver can’t stop,” he continued.
“As far as I know, it usually ends in a crash or an engine explosion.”
As of Friday, the condition of the truck driver who was sent over the I-30 overpass remains unknown.
Meanwhile, as the footage indicated, the poster’s father’s colleague is thankfully safe – probably thanks to his stars for not speeding a mile an hour.
An estimated 7.3 percent of fatal truck crashes involve a driver exceeding the posted speed limit, with impairment and inattention accounting for 5.2 percent of fatal collisions involving large trucks and 18-wheelers.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Reddit poster for comment.