Terrifying moment wrong-way driver in a stolen car speeds straight towards an oncoming vehicle which swerves into a ditch just SECONDS before a head-on collision
- Incident occurred on a Canadian highway in the early hours of Monday morning
- Driver of the stolen car was speeding the wrong way down the highway without their headlights on as they attempted to flee police
- Ian Burgess was traveling along the highway to work in the opposite direction when he noticed the stolen car speeding straight towards him
- He miraculously managed to veer off the road just seconds before a head-on collision
A dashboard camera has captured the terrifying moment a driver was forced to veer off the road just seconds before he was struck by a stolen car speeding down the wrong side of the highway.
The incident occurred just after 4 am Monday on the Queen Elizabeth II highway between Calgary and Edmonton in Canada.
Driver Ian Burgess, whose dashboard camera caught the heart-stopping moment, was commuting to work along the icy four-lane highway in the dark before he noticed an SUV driving directly towards him.
Footage shows that the SUV did not have its lights turned on, meaning that it was only visible from just a few meters out.
The clip reveals that Burgess quickly veered his own car over into the far-right lane, before the oncoming vehicle followed suit and continued to drive directly toward him.
Ian Burgess’ dashboard camera captured the terrifying moment he was forced to veer off the road just seconds before he was struck by a stolen car (seen in the distance without its headlights turned on)
Narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, Burgess veered off the road and into a ditch.
Luckily, his car escaped without any damage.
Burgess later told Global News he was ‘shaken up’ by the incident.
‘My heart was definitely pounding but I’m really happy that there wasn’t a worse outcome,’ he told the publication.
‘Everyone just kept looking at the video. They couldn’t believe it. They couldn’t believe that no one was killed and that I was able to drive away from it.’
Burgess quickly veered his own car over into the far-right lane, before the oncoming vehicle followed suit and continued to drive directly toward him
Police confirmed the SUV had been stolen from Calgary just hours earlier.
The thief inside that vehicle was fleeing from cops at the time he almost collided with Burgess.
Authorities did not manage to arrest the assailant, and instead recovered the car, which was abandoned, the next day.
‘My heart was definitely pounding but I’m really happy that there wasn’t a worse outcome,’ Burgess told Global News