Cement truck rams a Mercedes and drags it for hundreds of metres as merging manoeuvre goes wrong 

  • Dash-cam footage shows a horrifying smash between a cement truck and a car 
  • The car is dragged hundreds of metres after being caught in truck’s blind spot  
  • The incident occurred travelling down busy Sydney highway, Parramatta Rd

This is the horrifying moment a cement truck rammed a Mercedes and dragged for hundreds of metres.

As the driver of the German luxury car tried to change lanes, the driver of the truck indicated before pulling in the left-hand lane and side-swiping the white sedan.

The horror on the busiest road in Sydney’s congested inner-west showed what can go wrong when you’re stuck in the blind spot of a massive truck.

The white Mercedes is horrifyingly dragged for hundreds of metres by the cement truck (pictured)

The Mercedes finds its release (pictured) slamming into an advertising lamp post. Luckily, no one was seriously injured

The Mercedes finds its release (pictured) slamming into an advertising lamp post. Luckily, no one was seriously injured

The dash cam footage was captured on Parramatta Road at Concord as traffic approached the entrance to the M4 motorway to western Sydney.

The cement truck, used proper driving etiquette and displayed th blinker before the lane change. 

It was too late, however, for the white Mercedes Benz C-class sedan on Thursday, as it was  dragged for hundreds of metres.

The Mercedes found its release when slamming into the traffic lights post on the corner of the intersection. 

In a flash, the Mercedes skid and smashed into an advertising lamp-post, destroying the marketing collateral.  

No one was seriously injured in the accident, the owner of the dash cam footage said. 

The cement truck (centre) and Mercedes (bottom left) line up in traffic on Sydney's busy highway, Parramatta Road, before the accident unfolds

The cement truck (centre) and Mercedes (bottom left) line up in traffic on Sydney’s busy highway, Parramatta Road, before the accident unfolds

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