A truck driver is lucky to be alive after escaping a tractor trailer’s cab moments before a train slammed into it.
The wild video was captured Tuesday off Allatoona Road near Interstate 75 exit 283 in Bartow County, outside of Atlanta, local TV station WSB reports.
Georgia man Zack Hatcher was behind the semi that got stalled on the train tracks, and he began recording. The train’s horns can be heard while the crossing lights flash and bells sound. The train’s front lights approach before the loud impact can be heard.
“The f—ing train just hit this truck,” Hatcher can be heard saying in the video before asking the truck driver, “You alright, man?”
The truck’s load can be seen scattered across the area while the train sits still on the tracks following the crash.
“The engineer and conductor both stated that they could see the truck stopped on the tracks. They started breaking as soon as they saw the truck, but they were not able to stop in time,” City of Emerson Police Department Capt. Lisa Fuller told ABC News.
