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Dashcam footage shows terrified driver of semi-trailer dangling off Louisville bridge
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1:47Now PlayingDramatic dashcam footage shows the moment a pickup truck veered into oncoming traffic and struck a tractor-trailer that plowed through a guardrail and hung over the edge of a Louisville bridge.
The pickup driver, 33-year-old Trevor Branham, avoided rear-ending a stalled out vehicle in his lane when he quickly swerved, but ended up slamming into the front bumper of the Sysco semi-truck on the Clark Memorial Bridge on March 1, the video obtained by WHAS shows.
Footage from inside the semi-truck cabin shows 26-year-old driver Sydney Thomas furiously try to get a handle on the wheel and avoid hitting other cars on the roadway.
As the tractor-trailer veered off the road and over the side of the bridge, Thomas had a terrified look on her face and then quickly looked outside her window as the cabin hung 100 feet over the edge of the Ohio River.
“When I went through the railing, I was like, ‘Wow, this is a crazy way to die,’” Thomas told WHAS on Thursday. “I really thought I was going to die.”
“Sometimes you pray, and I’m guilty of this, I pray, and I don’t think God is listening,” a choked-up Thomas added. “But he was that day.”
While most of the truck was hanging from the side of the road, rescuers rappelled down to pull Thomas to safety. The rescue took about 40 minutes.
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