A driver in Pennsylvania was caught up in a crash that looked straight out of a horror movie last week when a truck carrying lumber overturned and threw its load across the road. The pile of lumber flew over I-83, sideswiping a car and forcing it off the highway in the process. A tractor-trailer loaded up with lumber overturned while travelling across an overpass above I-83 in central Pennsylvania, reports CBS News. The truck flipped over and threw the lumber down an embankment and onto the I-83 below where it hit a sedan driving on the northbound highway, as CBS reports:
The planks slide down an embankment before striking the passenger side of a sedan on the highway below, which veered off to the side.
The ramp from I-83 north to I-81 south was shut down for hours after the crash around 5 p.m., CBS 21 in Harrisburg said. The highway reopened around 10:30 p.m., the affiliate station reported.
Footage of the terrifying ordeal was captured by a dashcam in an Uber that was following the silver sedan. The driver, Derek Gooderham, said the scene was like an “avalanche” in front of him, reports USA Today:
He told newswire service Storyful that in the split moment before his car was hit, he almost thought the boards looked like trees. “But after seeing it all unfold, it was an avalanche of 2x4s and 2x12s covering the highway,” he told the service.
“I hate saying things like this, but that was probably the scariest thing that I have seen so far in my life,” Gooderham said. “I hope there’s nothing that tops that. It was pretty scary.”
Despite the car being hit from the side, forced off the road and over a bank, there were no injuries reported as a result of the horrifying crash. In fact, the highway was reopened and everyone got on with their lives just a few hours later.
