Terrifying dashcam footage shows semi-truck narrowly missing bystanders in Australia

One of the last things you ever want to see while behind the wheel is a semi truck sliding out of control, headed right towards you.

That was the case for the driver of a truck who’d stopped to chat with a woman who had pulled over due to a log blocking a road in Australia earlier this week. He quickly found himself in the middle of a much more terrifying situation.

The woman had luckily parked just off the road. If she hadn’t, she likely wouldn’t be alive.

A YouTube clip uploaded on Tuesday shows the driver of the truck slowing down to chat with the woman, and everything seems to be going fine until about 27 seconds in. At that point, a massive semi peels in from the distance, quickly crushing the log on the road with its trailer skidding dangerously in the opposite direction.

Watch this harrowing video of a near miss taken from a dash cam in Australia of a semi-truck ripping it around a corner, braking suddenly after noticing a log and screams past another truck stopped right beside a woman outside of her vehicle.

The driver of the truck in the video slows down to chat with the woman who had stopped because of the log which was blocking the road. Lucky for the woman, she parked just off the road.

According to ABC News Australia, the woman was not injured, though her car was badly damaged.