The owner of a lifted Chevy pickup confidently drove straight into the ditch on a flooded dirt road in Texas, but was quickly caught.
A concerned bystander tried her best to warn the driver, but stopped included the incident on her phone when he refused to follow her advice.
At the beginning of the clip, the truck appears to plow through the deep puddle without any problem.
But suddenly the front plunges into a huge ditch hidden by the accumulated water. There was a huge splash before the truck stopped moving completely and became stuck in the mud.
“I tried to tell him,” the woman behind the camera said as it became clear the vehicle wasn’t going anywhere.
Right now, the lifted Chevy seems to be chugging along just fine
The tragedy unfolded on April 27 in Kaufman County, just east of the Dallas-Forth Worth area.
A suspension lift kit is often added to trucks to get a better view of the road a blog from a Chevy dealer in Georgia.
The next most common reason is to drive the vehicle off-road and avoid rocks, fallen logs and mud puddles, the dealer said.
Of course, Chevy trucks aren’t the only ones experiencing problems in situations like the one in the video.
Seconds later, it plunges into an unexpectedly deep ditch, trapping the vehicle
Tesla’s new Cybertruck is being advertised as a vehicle that can drive off-road.
The user manual even has an entire section dedicated to how drivers should prepare for off-roading.
But electric truck owners have had mixed experiences.
One video posted to YouTube showed the silver vehicle getting stuck while crossing a California estuary.
‘I wouldn’t take a truck 100 km into a river like that. First of all, it’s electric, so I would be concerned about that, one commenter wrote on the video.
“Second, just because it has 1,000 horsepower and tons of torque, or whatever, doesn’t mean it can do anything.”