It’s important to never let your guard down while operating a motor vehicle. The highway is full of dangers, some of which you can’t even see. Luckily for the Chevy Malibu featured in the following video, the outcome of this near-miss is about as good as one could hope for after a semi-truck very nearly collides with the sedan head-on.
The video clocks in at about 30 seconds, and comes to us from Romulus, Michigan. The video is shot from the dash of another vehicle as it cruises down the highway at about 55 mph. According to the timestamp along the lower edge of the video, local time is about 9:45 a.m., on January 24th, 2021.
The highway shoulders are covered in snow, and with overcast skies, it looks like it’s a cold day in Michigan. Definitely less than ideal as far as conditions are concerned.
As the camera car tools along, a semi-truck suddenly appears in the right lane, speeding ahead of the camera vehicle.
All the vehicles in the right lane slow down, with some even moving over onto the shoulder. It looks as though the semi-truck realizes that there’s something in the lane at the very last moment, slamming on the brakes as it careens towards a Chevy Malibu parked in the leftmost lane.
Miraculously, the driver manages to stop the big rig mere feet in front of the Chevy Malibu, narrowly avoiding a very scary accident. Along the right-hand shoulder, a man is seen running away from the highway, presumably the driver who abandoned the Chevy Malibu.
“I was on I-94 when I noticed all cars ahead of me slowing down,” reads the video caption. “I slowed down and the truck behind me decided to try to pass me. Ahead of me was a car that was spun-out facing the truck. The truck almost plowed into the car head-on. The truck slammed on the brakes and stopped about two feet from the car.”
Stay vigilant out there, folks.
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Comments
Scary.
This reminded me of something my Cadillac CT4 did last week. I was driving to work on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. Suddenly a warning came up on my center screen as well as the small info screen between the speedo and tach. It had red, warning signs and a large ! in the triangle. It was something I had not seen before and at first it startled me. I thought something was wrong with the car. No, it was actually a warning that a vehicle was in the northbound lanes of the freeway but heading south!! I looked ahead about a mile up the road and sure enough there were cars hitting the brakes and traffic was coming to a stop rather fast. Thankfully I was about to exit anyhow, so off the freeway I went.
Does anyone know about this feature? I’m trying to figure out if it’s tied into the XM satellite, onstar or something else.
Asshole truck driver going too fast for conditions. Luckily nobody got killed.
The guy in the Malibu was saved. But a different Malibu a quarter mile back didn’t see the abrupt slow down/stop and slid under a different semi trucks icc bar and died….. well that what I always wonder when I see a close call in front of me, is what’s happening behind us.
Kirt: Exactly. I always find it humorous when we see the Tesla videos (many times on here) where the people brag about how the auto pilot saved them from crashing into another vehicle. However, someone else behind them didn’t expect the Tesla to slow or stop so fast and the Tesla gets rear ended. Hmmm. Isn’t a crash still a crash? No matter if your car gets smashed in the front or the back?
Malibu driver needs a rest stop to change his shorts!
I was out drive near the city about a month ago, I use the waze system thru my phone. I received an alert about an accident in the city ,even though I was not near the area.
Common courtesy and safety of others if the car driver had problems to get completely off the roadway instead of being a moron and stopping in the lane of traffic
Yikes.