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Happened on a California Highway

4/19/2017 at 3:29pm -
"Going home coming up the freeway on the 15 and this is what I saw wow intense the poor guy got drug at least 4 miles"

[William May]

The trucker was unaware he had picked up the car? WTF?!?!?

[gosportjamie]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

The trucker was unaware he had picked up the car? WTF?!?!?

From the way the car driver was acting after the truck stopped I've got a feeling there was much more to it than that. I suspect the car driver was being a road-raging asshole and got himself in that stupid position. The truck driver may not have been able to see the car as it was caught up in the back of the second trailer and it was pushing it to the right so the car may not have been visible in the mirror though an experienced driver would pull over and check the vehicle if they saw that much smoke rising in the mirror. I suspect the trucker was planning on dragging the idiot in the car to the next police vehicle and handing his ass over to the cops with the evidence. Not the most elegant solution to a road-raging dickhead, but a solution none-the-less. I reckon laughing boy in the Nissan just got himself well and truly karma'ed and found out that just desserts aren't any too sweet so don't waste your sympathy on him...

[kellyhound]

A driver says he’s lucky to be alive after his car became wedged under a truck and was dragged four miles up the Cajon Pass.

Cellphone video captured the unbelievable sight of a maroon Nissan Maxima clearly stuck under a truck hauling 50,000 pounds of carrots that continued driving up the remote canyon pass Wednesday at about 3:21 p.m. The driver in the sedan can be seen waving his hands for help behind a shattered windshield and crushed hood.

A California Highway Patrol statement said the truck was driving 30 mph northbound on Interstate 5, north of State Route 138, in the truck lane when it began to move into the left lane. The Maxima, while trying to pass into the left lane also, collided with the truck and became lodged, according to the CHP.

Witnesses said they thought the car had been dragged for miles, but CHP officials said the Maxima had been dragged for “approximately .7 of a mile.”

Brian Steimke posted the Facebook video, in which you can hear him saying in disbelief, “Look at that. Oh my God.”

Other drivers honked to get the truck driver’s attention, and one finally got in front to stop the truck.

Steimke approaches the truck driver, identified later by the California Highway Patrol as 62-year-old Pete Edward Maestas of Bakersfield, and asks him why he was driving so far.

“Dude, the guy was underneath your car!” Steimke is heard saying.

When the Maestas says he didn’t know that, Steimke says “What do you mean you didn’t know it, dude! He’s on your truck!”

The driver of the sedan, identified as 34-year-old Javier A. Diaz Jr. of Oak Hills, he is just a bit sore from the collision and is simply happy to be home with his family.

CBS2/KCAL9 spoke to Jerrone Thomas who also took video of the bizarre incident as he drove home on the Cajon Pass Wednesday. Thomas said it appeared the truck driver has no idea there was a problem.

“He’s dragging him for the better part of a mike, he’s just unaware,” he said, “I don’t know.”

Finally, Thomas decided to brake in front of the truck to get him to stop.

“I got in front of the truck and thought, here goes nothing and stopped the guy,” he says.

According to the CHP, this crash is not considered a criminal incident. Officers on the scene did not detect any signs of impairment on the truck driver, and said the driver’s log book appeared to be in compliance.

The CHP did tell that the truck driver might still be cited for improperly changing lanes and causing the collision.

Neither driver requested medical care, CHP officials said.

[SLAPAPPY]

Totally the car drivers fault as the truck was in the slow vehicle lane meant for heavy trucks and vehicles to ascend the hill as indicated by the trucks 4 way flashers on. You don't end up wedged into the back of a big rig unless your an inattentive idyit! Probably no license or common sense or both. Was hoping to see the truck inhale then spit the fool out in little DR style pieces but I guess too many nosy can't mind their own titards ruined what could have been a classic DR video.

[Cinnamon_Glow]

Wonder whose fault it was... Feel like it was the small car, but the trucker definitely should have seen that

[Susan]

It says in that quote that the truck driver was at fault for improperly changing lanes.

[EMason88]

I was one a passenger in a car that rear ended a tractor trailor making a illegal U turn. He drove away and when pulled over hours later he swore he dident feel a thing!
The weight of these things can be around 80,000 lbs sometimes

[Desensitisation]

I can believe the trucker not feeling the impact, given how loaded the truck was; or it feeling no more than a speed bump in the road.

But FFS, a little situational awareness! I check my mirrors on a regular basis, and he surely would have seen that if he had.