- Dramatic footage shows pile-up involving lorries on a road near Saratov, Russia
- Black SUV narrowly avoids being hit by one truck before smashing into another
- VW Touareg’s driver and his passenger, 50, were taken to hospital for treatment
- Two were killed in pile-up, which unfolded when a car was overtaking up ahead
This is the terrifying moment an SUV driver miraculously avoided being hit by an out-of-control truck – only for another to emerge from its dust cloud and hit him head-on in a Russian pile-up.
Dramatic footage captured the crash on a road just outside the city of Saratov in south-western Russia’s Saratov Oblast region.
It shows a black Volkswagen Touareg narrowly avoiding a swerving truck before his car hit a second lorry as it smashed into a crash barrier.
While the driver of the SUV survived the pile-up, two others died when their car was crushed by one of the two juggernauts involved.
Footage captures the terrifying moment an SUV driver miraculously avoided being hit by an out-of-control truck – only for another to emerge from its dust cloud and hit him head-on in a Russian pile-up
The video shows a black Volkswagen Touareg narrowly avoiding a swerving truck before his car hit a second lorry as it smashed into a crash barrier
Dramatic footage captured the crash on a road just outside the city of Saratov in south-western Russia’s Saratov Oblast region
Video starts by showing a motorist in a Lada further up the road overtaking numerous vehicles despite an oncoming lorry speeding towards them.
The lorry clips the Lada and swerves away from it towards a crash barrier before the truck over-corrects as it swings back on to the lane.
The motion pulls the lorry across oncoming traffic and it ploughs into the crash barrier on the other side of the road before toppling over.
It also reportedly crushed a car and killed its two occupants – a member of the Federal Penitentiary Service and his 10-year-old son.
A black Volkswagen Tuareg in front of the camera car veered to the very left of the opposite lane and hit a second lorry as it smashed into a crash barrier.
A black Volkswagen Tuareg in front of the camera car veered to the very left of the opposite lane and hit a second lorry as it smashed into a crash barrier
The Touareg’s driver and his passenger, 50, needed medical help and were taken to a local hospital
The Touareg’s driver and his passenger, 50, needed medical help and were taken to a local hospital.
It is reported that two of the passengers of the Lada – the driver’s wife, 41, and their daughter, 16, were cut out of the wrecked car. Their conditions are both critical.
The Lada driver reportedly denied any involvement in causing the accident.
It was not clear what police action if any had been taken. None of the people involved were named in reports.