When driving via a picturesque forest, the very last thing you’d count on to occur is for a large tree to fall in your automobile; nevertheless, that’s precisely what occurred to a few in California in mid-January.

Dashcam footage exhibits the couple driving via the Sequoia Nationwide Forest close to the Path of 100 Giants. As they drove round a left-hand bend, a 200-foot tall Redwood tree started to topple over.

With simply two seconds to react to the falling tree, the cammer instinctively swerved to the left and hit the throttle.

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Footage taken after the scary incident exhibits that the tree hit the rear-half of the roof, smashing the sunroof and shattering the rear window however, remarkably, the couple concerned weren’t injured. Had somebody been sitting within the rear seat, they seemingly would have been injured (or worse) and had the motive force not pinned the throttle however merely swerved to try to keep away from the falling tree, he and his companion may have been crushed.

If this video teaches us something it’s that no matter the place you might be driving, there are all the time dangers and one ought to all the time count on the surprising. Have been the cammer distracted on the time, issues may have been a lot worse.