Idiotic Truck Driver Nearly Annihilates Motorist With Ill-Timed Overtaking Maneuver

There's little more terrifying on the roads than the prospect of a truck smashing into you head-on. With that in mind, we're guessing the driver of this car probably needed a change of underwear after this accident. While traveling along a heavily pot-holed two-way road in Russia, a truck driving the opposite direction chooses an utterly stupid moment to overtake another car.

With the truck heading straight for them, the camera car driver slams his brakes so hard they lock up, while the the truck bails off the road, delivering a glancing blow to the car. While an almost certainly fatal head-on was avoided, we can't help but think the car driver could have turned left a touch and escaped entirely unscathed, rather than keeping his foot planted on the brake pedal...

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