Dramatic dash cam footage captures moment driver rolls car to avoid truck
Dramatic dash cam footage has captured the moment a driver rolled his 4WD to avoid slamming into a semi-trailer.
The near-miss happened at a notorious Adelaide intersection that claimed two lives late last year.
Just before 6am the driver, Aaron, was heading out of the city on Port Wakefield Road when a semi suddenly pulled out in from of him.
“I basically slammed the anchors on to avoid hitting him,” Aaron said.
Aaron swerved and rolled his car onto its side, only just missing the prime mover.
His quick thinking and lightning reactions saved his life.
“Another couple of seconds, I would be underneath his truck and I would be dead,” Aaron said.
Luckily, he managed to get out of the wreck uninjured.
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“About 11 truck drivers came out and tried to assist me, they actually attempted to push the car back upright, because I was a little bit stuck in there,” he said.
An almost identical crash at the same intersection in October 2017 killed two people.
In that collision, a motorcyclist slammed into the side of a sedan that was also turning right onto Hodgson Road.
The RAA says there is a reoccurring problem that drivers face at the intersection.
“We’ve had three of this type of crashes occurring in the last three to four years, so I’d suggest there needs to be a closer look at the intersection in its entirety,” the RAA’s Charles Mountain said.
It seems Aaron would agree.
“How many people does it take to die for them to actually realise that there’s an issue?”, he said.
