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Stunning video: Semitrailer hits black ice, races toward man's stopped car

 
Published Jan. 20, 2015

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A motorist stopped in traffic captured on videotape a near-miss of a tractor-trailer sliding on black ice on the New Jersey Turnpike.

The man, Oleg Varavko, was driving on the toll road in New Brunswick Sunday when he stopped because trucks ahead of him had fishtailed and blocked the lanes. He took out his cellphone and began shooting video.

On YouTube, where he first posted the video, he wrote: "I was blocked by two trucks on southbound I-95 at exit 9 in NJ (New Brunswick exit). I only wanted to take a picture while I was awaiting for them to clear up... And then I heard a noise from behind... I was barely missed.''

He told a New Jersey CBS affiliate that as the truck barrelled down on him he said the only words he knows in Russian: "God help me.''

No one was hurt.