A video shows the horrifying moment a truck slammed into a cow at 112mph over the weekend.
Professional driver Christian Sourapas and his co-driver John Tondro were in the lead at the Parker 425 in Arizona when two cows unexpectedly crossed in front of them.
The video gives a close up look from the inside of the No. 91 Terrible Herbst Monster Energy trick truck as the drivers competed for Best in the Desert on February 3.
This video shows the horrifying moment a truck slammed into a cow (pictured) at 112mph over the weekend
Professional driver Christian Sourapas and his co-driver John Tondro were in the lead at the Parker 425 in Arizona when two cows (pictured) unexpectedly crossed in front of them
The truck then hits the first cow, causing pieces of its body to fly through the air and splatter the truck’s windshield
All seems to be going well, and Sourapas had even reached 112mph, when he braked slightly as the cows ran out in front of him one behind the other.
The truck then hits the first cow, causing pieces of its body to fly through the air and splatter the truck’s windshield.
In the video, the truck did a complete 360-degree flip before coming to a stop in probably the worst place possible: in the middle of the active course in the direct path of other 6,000-pound race trucks.
‘F**k! You okay?’ one of the driver’s yell as Sourapas gets out to try and flag other trucks down to keep them from hitting them.
But the Herbst Helicopter landed and they immediately helped on flagging cars down.
‘We put a fire extinguisher in the middle of the course and used our red triangles. We pushed the alert on the Racing Trax but had no idea if it was going to work or not,’ Sourapas described in a blog on Race Dezert.
Sourapas said most of the cars made it safely through except for #63 of Johnny Angal.
‘If it weren’t for his quick reflexes and superb driving abilities, he would have directly T-Boned the cab of the 91. He did nail the read of the truck, breaking the right front of his truck, but luckily they weren’t harmed,’ Sourapas wrote.
He also detailed the moments leading up to the crash.
‘Before I could even react, we [were] smashing into both of them sending us into a shock and veering the truck to the left,’ he wrote.
In the video, the truck did a complete 360-degree flip before coming to a stop in probably the worst place possible: in the middle of the active course in the direct path of other 6,000-pound race trucks
Sourapas (left) said most of the cars made it safely through except for #63 of Johnny Angal. ‘If it weren’t for his quick reflexes and superb driving abilities, he would have directly T-Boned the cab of the 91,’ Sourapas wrote
Both Sourapas (left) and Tondro walked away uninjured. Sourapas (right) is also a track and field star at the University of Southern California
‘Blood and guts everywhere. I knew it was gonna be a day-ender, but as I was thinking that the truck caught and we started tumbling.
‘As we were crashing, all I was thinking about was when this was gonna stop. We were in the air for a while, and I was praying to god that this wasn’t it. I was afraid that JT or I wasn’t going to make it.
‘It was scary because I never had thought I had a chance of dying until this moment. It was my first major crash and I didn’t know what to do,’ Sourapas added.
Luckily, both drivers walked away uninjured. Sourapas is also a track and field star at the University of Southern California.
The horrific incident occurred during the Parker 425 that takes place annually as part as the Best in the Desert Racing Association.
This year’s Best in the Desert title went to Andy McMillin.