New video captured the heartbreaking moment a truck driver exited his massive semi just before it was hit by a train.
The footage shows the stalled semi stretching across the tracks as a railroad crossing signal flashes red in the dead of night.
Horns sound as the locomotive rapidly approaches the vehicle, leaving the driver little choice but to abandon the truck.
In the clip, the truck door swings open before the desperate driver scrambles down from his cab and takes cover.
Only sSeconds later, the powerful train crashes into the truck, creating a devastating crash site that leaves parts of the truck scattered across the road.
New video captured the heartbreaking moment the driver sprinted away from his semi before a train hit the truck
The footage shows the trapped semi-truck stretching across the train tracks. It is night and the railway crossing signal is flashing red
The truck bursts into pieces of flying debris, sending shards of metal and wood flying dozens of feet through the air.
For a moment, the dust obscures the wrecked truck before thinning to reveal pieces of wood and bits of metal strewn along the road.
The train makes a screeching noise as it tries to brake, but it moves too fast and continues running down the track.
A few moments later, the train finally manages to come to a complete stop, after which the man recording the video gets out of the car and approaches the locomotive.
The truck explodes into pieces of flying debris. Wooden shards fly dozens of meters through the air. The metal roof of the trailer is coming loose
Then the dust thins and you see broken pieces of wood and pieces of metal lying along the road
“This train just hit this truck,” he says as the train signal rings in the background and the red light continues to flash.
After finding the truck driver, the man with the camera asks:
“You okay, man?”
The nervous truck driver responds breathlessly:
“What happened was I tried to back up, and [the train signal’s barrier] landed on top of the truck.”
“I’m like, ‘Oh, the train’s coming.'”
The man taking the video explains to the driver that he tried to get his attention by lying on the horn.
He then walks over to the overturned truck and films the badly damaged trailer, before the video jumps forward to show a fleet of fire trucks and other emergency vehicles parked along the narrow road.
The broken pieces of the truck were scattered on the road
The man who took the video was parked several feet behind the truck at the intersection.
He later said his own car was “hit with a lot of debris.”
He added, “Everyone was fine except the semi-truck…Thank God [the driver] got out of the truck!’