Talk about a brush with death.
While investigating a traffic accident on I-80 in Iowa, two sheriff deputies and a state trooper were nearly hit by a truck as it flew through the air, clipped the vehicle and collided with the embankment.
The truck had been hit by a semi on the highway moments before.
A short while later, you can hear one of the cops say, “I’m gonna go check on that guy.” Thankfully, the driver of the flying truck, 45-year-old Dana Miller, only suffered a cut on his forehead.
The driver of the semi, 49-year-old Michael John Smith, was cited with failure to maintain control, KWWL reports.
“This is just a glaring example of how close we came to losing Trooper (Jesse) Hernandez, Deputy (Aaron) Hammes, along with Reserve Deputy (Kim) Pearson … all because a driver of a semi chose not to slow down when approaching a crash scene full of vehicles and emergency lights,” Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek was quoted as saying.
If you like to cringe, you can watch the insane video above. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured.
SOURCE: Huffington Post | VIDEO SOURCE: YouTube
