Eerily Silent Man Films Continuously as Tractor Trailer Hits Black Ice and Nearly Crushes Him

A man somehow kept the camera rolling the entire time as he was nearly crushed to death by an 18-wheeler.

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Put yourself in this guy’s shoes for a second. You’re filming the wreckage of a massive pileup on the Jersey Turnpike. There is debris everywhere. As you pan around to what’s behind you, a massive 18-wheeler starts skidding towards you and sure looks like it’s going to turn you into a pancake. What do you do? Scream? Swear really loudly? Duck? Bail out of the car?

Really, any of those would have made more sense than this gentleman’s reaction, which was to say nothing and just keep filming. Fortunately for this motorist (and us), fate intervened and kept the out-of-control 18-wheeler inches away from his car, allowing him to drive away unscathed. Indeed, somehow nobody was hurt in this massive pileup that occurred over the weekend near Exit 9.

In an interview with New York’s ABC 7, the man said that “I realized that there was really nothing else I could do but hope for divine intervention.” He certainly got it, all while managing to hold his iPhone both steady and sideways.

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[via Gothamist]

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