A Minnesota girl and her youngster narrowly escaped demise when a semi trailer drove into their disabled Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck at excessive velocity on a busy freeway final week.

Stunning footage reveals the pink pickup stationary in the course of the three-lane I-35 earlier than a black semi makes an attempt to drive straight by it, inflicting the pickup to burst into flames as it’s tossed down the close by exit ramp.

Thankfully, 42-year outdated Susan Norberg and her 12 year-old stepdaughter had escaped to the freeway’s shoulder earlier than the collision and have been unhurt. The semi’s driver was additionally reportedly unhurt within the accident, although each automobiles have been wrecked.

For those who’re questioning why the lady didn’t transfer her truck to the aspect of the street when she realized there was a fault, somewhat than let it come to a cease within the heart lane, so have been we. However the StarTribune information web site reveals that the lady’s truck had hit a deer on the freeway, setting off the airbags which blocked her view and made the the automobile motionless as soon as it had come to a cease.

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Official Minnesota police steerage is that stranded occupants ought to name for assist however stay of their automobiles, as a result of they put themselves in danger by getting out and making an attempt to run throughout reside site visitors lanes the place different automobiles are touring at excessive speeds. However fortunately the pickup’s occupants didn’t heed that warning.

“I may hear the vehicles whooshing previous us,” Norberg informed the StarTribune. “I’m considering, ‘We’re going to get hit right here.’ I simply needed to get out of the truck as a result of I used to be terrified.”

As was Norberg’s stepdaughter, who struggled to get her seatbelt unfastened, and was then frozen with panic and initially unable to depart the truck. Minutes after each made it the roadside the Silverado was destroyed earlier than their eyes.

As for the place the trucker’s eyes have been within the moments main as much as the collision, we are able to solely speculate. The police aren’t saying, however until he was having a medical emergency you must wonder if he was texting, or twiddling with a navigation system, as a result of the video reveals he made no try and brake or drive across the Chevy regardless of the left-hand lane being solely free from site visitors.