An anonymous reader sent me this crazy video taken two weeks ago: a truck out of control almost smashes a car on a snowy road. Fortunately, these guys got extremely lucky and Death got distracted at the very last second.
If I’m not mistaken this is a road in Poland, but I may be wrong.
May this serve as our classic holidays reminder about how important it is to drive safe especially during these days. Be alert, my friends. Lots of icy roads, drunkards and imprudent drivers out there. [Thanks Hans!]
Nicholas
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:05 AM“Icy roads”
:(
Hugh
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:07 AMAre you posting the video? Or a link even??
Hugh
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:08 AMactually maybe it’s just Firefox inside a corporate firewall that can’t get the video…
deadnotsleeping
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:34 AMwow. I like how the guy just keeps driving as if nothing happens.
Also, who drives around recording video??
Graham
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 10:29 AMSome people have video recorders running whenever they are driving in case they need to prove who was at fault in an accident.
Im also amazed how seemingly cool these guys are after coming so close to getting wiped. I wonder what happened to the cars behind after the truck went past them.
Graeme
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 7:25 PMI’ve had a couple of very narrow escapes on roads and elsewhere and I’ve been very calm at the time. I think it’s pretty common as the survival instinct kicks in to enable you to remain in control as much as possible. The first chance you have to sit back and take stock of what happened is when it hits you. In one or two of my escapes I’ve become a gibbering, shaking wreck an hour or two later.
Tom
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:57 AMCan’t see it on iphone
Rahux
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 10:23 AMEverything iCan’t, Droid Does.
Sylver
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:06 PMI was about to slam you for bringing up the iphone/android argument. Then I realised you’re right.
Typed on my Asus EEEPad Slider.
miguel sanchez
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:56 PMSame here. Blankety blank on the iPhone.
Sent from my 386DX-40.
Michael
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:39 PM+1 for your awesome system!
Martin
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 11:21 AMholy crap…that is definately a dear god moment.
Just This Guy ...
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:00 PMThanks for posting this one. I saw the same clip on another site the other day, but it stopped just as the wayward truck passed by. This one shows what the cause was. A stopped snow plough by the looks.
Megamind2
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:12 PMJust calmly driving on looking for a place to change the ol’ underwear.
awallafashagba
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:56 PMbeeejessuussssss …. phew
Geoff
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 5:47 PMIf it were me in the drivers seat, I know for sure I would have been going “SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII….” waiting for the splat. How calm and eerily quiet these guys were, waiting to die. :-/ And then, happily not! :-)
Dave
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:28 PMI don’t know why people are saying iPhones can’t view this. I just watched it on my iPhone 4 while in Kmart. “the other half is clothes shopping”
Kiy
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 4:13 PMIs thus video for real, or a fake, created by stunt drivers? Absolutely no reaction, a steady camera all the way through. And they seem to know when to speed up to attempt to overtake the truck just as the other one was sliding past….too surreal to be true.