Head-on collision with a cement truck caught on dash cam video

A professor at Texas A&M University was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of an extremely close call when a cement truck ran a red light, lost control and rolled over, hitting his van in a head on collision.

Dr. Guan Zhu had installed a dashboard camera in his car about a year ago, which captured the entire incident.

Zhu was driving his Toyota Sienna minivan north on Wellborn Road on when he came to a red light. While stopped at the Rock Prairie intersection, the cement truck ran the red light on the opposite side of the road. In an attempt to dodge a white pickup truck, it seems the driver lost control of the cement truck and plowed directly into Zhu’s minivan.

“I could not remember what happened. In my memory a truck is coming and I could not remember exactly how it happened and then the video says that’s how it happened,” Zhu said, laughing and feeling lucky to be alive.

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Lucky for Zhu, he was not injured in the accident. The airbags of his minivan deployed and he only suffered a minor cut on his leg. His dash cam was also still intact.

The driver of the cement truck did not suffer any major injuries but he was issued a ticket at the scene of the accident, where it took the city several hours to clean up the spilled cement.

Word to the wise: never try to run the red … especially if you're driving a cement truck.

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