Finding yourself face to face with an oncoming vehicle that’s twice or several times the size of whatever it is you’re driving, is probably every driver’s worst nightmare.
Unfortunately, it happens a lot more often than it should, with tragic consequences. In this case though, we’re glad to see the dashcam vehicle escape what would have been a brutal impact had the driver not reacted in time.
While the out of control semi does sideswipe another truck initially, it makes sense to worry more about what happened right after the second contact. Any vehicle trailing the dashcam car would have been in immediate danger. Unfortunately the video’s description doesn’t provide us with a lot of details.
Either way, you can be certain that all parties involved got a proper scare out of what happened. For the rest of us, it should serve as a reminder to raise our awareness levels in traffic, because you never know when somebody’s going to make a costly mistake.
Speaking of which, here is an almost as scary example of such a mistake, where a full head-on crash was barely avoided.