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This guy must be the luckiest man in Russia. After a truck swerved in front of a bus travelling at speed, forcing them both to crash straight through a petrol station, a man on the forecourt missed getting nailed by said bus by what looks like only a couple of centimetres. Wow that was close.
I think that’d be enough for me to drop what I was doing and rethink my life. Gees that was a close call, and looking at the parked truck that was taken out in the process, I’d say there was no way he’d have survived. Time to enter the lottery my friend, with luck like that you’re bound to win. [YouTube via RT]
Thanks Jeff!
At 00:18 I really thought he was checking to see if he had just wet himself.
Wouldn’t blame the man if he had.
See also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqczQVevLY8
Not to downplay anything, cos that really is a genuine near-death moment, but I think the thing which actually misses the guy by centimeters is the door swinging open, which he might have survived if it didn’t throw him under the rest of the thing…
It probably would have collected him and sent him under everything else.
What the hell was that lorry driver thinking?
Also, “gees” What’s gees? Isn’t it Jeez/Geez?
was lucky to not have blown the place up if i had gone though the pump lol
This accident left plenty of skid marks
I thought the whole place is going to blow up. What exactly the truck driver was thinking?