Two trucks came recently within a hair’s width of crashing and rolling after being cut off by a Nissan Sentra in Richmond, Virginia.
The scene was recorded on the dashcam of one of the trucks involved and shows the moment that the black Sentra aggressively changed lanes in front of the maroon-colored truck, leaving just a few feet of space.
For some reason, the Nissan driver brakes heavily right in front of the truck, forcing the truck driver to slam on his brakes to avoid rear-ending and crushing the sedan.
This move instantly locks up the truck’s brakes, sending it into a skid sideways along the motorway where it comes close to rolling. Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, a truck following behind gets caught in the mayhem and is forced to steer off the road and along a grass embankment. Remarkably, it too remains upright.
On his Facebook page, the truck driver, Jonathan Herschberger, said the following:
“Probably one of the scariest incidents I’ve had one the road. Because of the wide angle lens on my dashcam everything looks farther away than it actually is. Car jumped in front of me with not more than 12 feet clearance then slammed on the brakes, couldn’t jump to the left because of another truck passing me, so it was either slam on the brakes or nail the car.
“I chose to slam on the brakes which caused me to start going into a jack knife, did my best to get out of the jack knife and I did get out of it but without a second to spare. Luckily the other truck driver saw what was happening and moved to left to avoid hitting me. Car kept on going like nothing happened although I’m almost sure I bumped it because my collision sensor activated on my dashcam and I thought I felt it bump but didn’t have any visible damage on the front of the truck. How both or rigs stayed upright is still a mystery to me because my truck and trailer where both sliding.”