The BlazeA dashcam records a life-flashing-before-the-eyes moment as two tractor-trailers approach what appears destined to be a head-on collision on a snowy Ontario, Canada highway.
Driving along Highway 11 north of Nipigon, which is about 90 minutes north of Thunder Bay, the driver of the tractor-trailer with the dashcam notices another tractor-trailer attempting to pass a slow-moving snow plow…and is headed straight for him.
The driver with the dashcam starts yelling, “What the hell are you doing?! No! No! No!” and swerving to the right to avoid the oncoming tractor-trailer, so much so that he appears to navigate part of the vehicle over the guardrails.
Somehow the driver creates just enough space so that the oncoming tractor-trailer, which also appears to swerve away, barely misses him.
According to the date stamp on the video, the incident took place Jan. 4.
Here’s the clip. Content warning: The driver utters a choice word beyond the realm of “hell” after the drama is complete (but you knew that already, didn’t you?)
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News reported that police received an initial report about the incident and will use the video in their investigation.
How much you wanna bet those trailers kissed? The tractors ended up OK but how about those trailers 🙂
How about the guy’s underwear hate to have to do his laundry.
aw man that was scarey. whew!!
That is why we need to get back to the horse and buggy days again
hahaha Hey brother digger. that makes sense to me.
The sheer terror in his voice gave me chills. Wow! Thank goodness both drivers are okay.
I’m sure shorts had to be changed.
whew…. id say so Deb.
That was fun. Let’s do it again, daddy!
You are funny as hell NC, that’s something my oldest daughter would say! LOL
Scary stuff. It sounded like he ran over the guardrail and popped a tire or two, or that may have been the trailers slamming into each other.
I hate ice driving. If you hit the brakes you only lose what little control you have.
Seems like he was going a tad too fast, not good on an icy road.
Yep. Hit the nail on the head. Waaaaaaay too fast for the conditions. On a blind curve to boot. He could have just stopped if he was going a safe speed. He was doing around 45, should have been doing around 15 or so. Idiot…….
This will be an at fault accident. His fault… I know what your going to say, but the insurance company will ream him for speed. The other truck was going the correct speed. His own camera will prove that.
All he had to do was stop, that would have put the entire enchilada in the other drivers lap. This would have never happened if he would have slowed earlier to 15 to 20 mph
Mark,
That was my first thought when viewing the video. He was driving too fast in snowy conditions.
But I was also thinking that a rig of that size and weight, if he applied his breaks, would there have been enough time to actually slow down the rig, especially in those road conditions? Could the outcome have been worse?
Obviously I know nothing about driving a rig, but could a jack knife situation have happened if the driver with the cam as we saw it applied his brakes vigorously ?
Sorry, I feel asleep earlier Deb. If the driver had slowed to a safe speed earlier, no jackknife would have occurred. Most of these newer rigs have anti lock brakes installed on the trailers and tractors both. Just some small taps and common sense and you will stop nice and easy and best of all straight, even on ice.
Speed is the big factor here
Yep, I was thinking that same thing when I first viewed it, too. He was definitely going way to fast in the snow. Especially with a truck that size.
Idiots. The one guys roaring along too fast and the other one
is passing a plow right before a blind turn.