Here’s the link - someone with a dashboard mounted camera posted a video of a semi crashing through the barrier on a divided highway.
The driver who caught the footage was very lucky, indeed!
:eek:
Terrible camera work. He turns away just as it gets interesting.
Lost the game of chicken too.
Two for flinching!
:eek::eek::eek:
Holy crap! Reading further down the page, the driver says he saw what was happening and engaged in some defensive driving (which is very good, and part of the reason that I hate all the oversized vehicles on the road - I need to SEE THE FUCKING ROAD AHEAD OF ME). Uh, getting off topic there - yes, scary, indeed!
The driver alertly swerved to the opposite shoulder to avoid hitting the truck-that’s what you are seeing, not “terrible camera work.” If he had kept going, yeah he would have gotten an even better shot-right before he hit the guy at a high rate of speed.
Yeah, that was a joke.
Anyway, that was cool. Very scary. Was the truck driver who came across asleep then?
He could have just been jackknifing. Doesn’t take much. Changing lanes over a patch of ice and finding yourself having to hit the brakes* could be all it takes to look in your side view and realize your trailer is passing you.
If you watch the video closely, you’ll see that he’s starting to pass the orange truck on the right when he sees the jackknifed truck on the other side of the highway, so he slows down and goes around the orange truck to get to safety. A nice piece of alert driving. If he’d gotten stuck between the two trucks that would have ended very badly.
Holy crap – that video forced me to change my underwear. :eek:
And me my diaper.
mmm
It’s like he drove onto a Michael Bay set.
It looked like a spectacular stunt in a movie.
Having to negotiate I-10 between Houston and Lafayette every couple weeks, that sort of my nightmare, especially between Beaumont and Orange.
Yeah, it’s the way the semi leaps and destroys the concrete barrier as easily as a wave breaking over the sea wall that freaks me out.
Well, that and the fact that there have been periods when I’ve driven past that point at least 4 times a week.
:eek: There’s a reason I call that road The Evil Death Highway of Doom.
For me, the reason is that Transport Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation have apparently never heard of reflective paint, and the road becomes invisible if it’s slightly rainy at night.