While driving, one can become distracted or inattentive for a number of reasons, be it a conversation with a passenger, a lapse in concentration, sleep deprivation or that pesky mobile phone that keeps on ringing.
In this case, it could literally have been any one of those scenarios, although if we go by the reactions from the comments section, some people can be quick to jump on the phone train – understandably, since it’s such a major issue. That’s assuming, of course, that the driver was indeed distracted and there wasn’t another reason for losing control of the vehicle.
If you go back to the 20-second mark of the video, you’ll see the grey Mazda drive past the red semi while being a little wobbly. The driver was definitely struggling, for whatever reason, to drive straight.
A split second before the car hit the barrier by the side of the road, the driver does seem to attempt a slight course correction, but by the time he/she hit the brakes, it was already too late.
Unfortunately, it was a very violent impact; and as if that wasn’t enough, it got hit by the semi truck that followed it and couldn’t do anything to avoid smashing into the already heavily damaged sedan. We just hope everybody involved made it out safely.