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Driver narrowly avoids disaster when lumber trailer spills logs

By Ben Hooper
A lumber trailer overturns on a Russian road, sending logs toward a vehicle with a dashboard camera. Screenshot: JukinMedia
A lumber trailer overturns on a Russian road, sending logs toward a vehicle with a dashboard camera. Screenshot: JukinMedia

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KOTLAS, Russia, July 12 (UPI) -- A Russian driver's dashboard camera was rolling when a lumber truck lost its load of logs, which stopped mere feet from the driver's vehicle.

The video, recorded Thursday on a road in Kotlas, Russia, shows the lumber truck coming up the road in the opposite direction from the vehicle with the dashcam.

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The truck's trailer turns sideways onto the road, spilling logs that tumble toward the camera.

The logs and trailer stop mere feet from the front of the driver's car.

"In the descent from the bridge saw in the distance a truck trailer which swayed from side to side, and then fell. I stopped waiting for the inevitable... But I was lucky!" the driver wrote of the experience.

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