Truck driver barely escapes before train plows through semi: VIDEO

The operator of an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer is fortunate to beryllium live aft helium narrowly escaped a monolithic collision with an oncoming bid extracurricular Atlanta this week.

The incident, which was captured connected video, happened aboriginal Tuesday greeting disconnected Allatoona Road adjacent Interstate 75 successful Bartow County, Georgia.

Zack Hatcher was close down the tractor-trailer that had stalled connected bid tracks and archetypal shared the video with ABC Atlanta presumption WSBTV.

In his video, the blaring of bid horns tin beryllium heard arsenic the railroad crossing arms little and a antheral is seen hopping retired of the driver's broadside of the truck, making a tally for it moments earlier the bid made impact.

Debris flies arsenic the trailer tumbles over, and Hatcher, who was not excessively acold from the incident, has to backmost up his ain car to debar being hit.

The bid yet comes to a halt and Hatcher climbs betwixt 2 of the bid cars to spell cheque connected the motortruck driver, who appears miraculously unharmed.

"The technologist and conductor some stated that they could spot the motortruck stopped connected the tracks -- they started breaking arsenic soon arsenic they saw the truck, but they were not capable to halt successful time," Capt. Lisa Fuller of the City of Emerson Police Department told ABC News.

Authorities said this marks the eighth documented incidental astatine this aforesaid bid crossing since 2017, but the archetypal collision, and the operator near with a citation for driving a conveyance implicit a railroad crossing with insufficient abstraction to thrust wholly done the crossing without stopping.

"There were nary injuries -- thankfully," Fuller confirmed. "There's been incidents earlier wherever the the drivers weren't capable to get retired of the vehicles."

Authorities said different trucks person stalled astatine that aforesaid determination successful the past, owed to the turning radius adjacent the tracks. Some trucks cannot wide it, but nary person gotten stuck connected the tracks earlier this accident, they said.

Roadside work supplier AAA shared immoderate further tips for drivers adjacent bid crossings:

- Slow down erstwhile crossing bid tracks.

- Never halt connected the bid tracks oregon betwixt the down gross and tracks.

- Ensure determination is country connected the different broadside of the tracks earlier crossing.

- Obey each signals, lights, bells and gates.

- Do not thrust astir a gross that is down.

- Be alert of your surroundings.

- Listen for trains, bid whistles and informing bells.

- Look for trains, stopped vehicles, lowered gates and informing lights.

- Avoid distractions erstwhile driving.