Lucky or Talented? Russian Truck Driver Avoids Crash in Style

The jury is still out on whether the protagonist of our latest Russian offbeat video had lady luck on his side or if he's that good behind the wheel of a truck, but either way, the save was impressive, to say the least.

If you pay attention to the dashboard camera-sourced footage, at about seven seconds into the video, you can see an old (or new, it's the same thing anyway…) Lada Niva 4x4 legally entering the road from a side street.

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Oh, Russia: How Not to Stop When a Police Officer Pulls You Over

If there was ever a driver more eager to stop upon being signaled by police officers on foot, it would be the person sitting behind the wheel of this black-colored Lada Niva (some of you may also know the rugged 4x4 as the VAZ-2121).

The Niva was traveling on the road when all of a sudden; two Russian traffic cops came out of the woods and walked inside the first lane to signal the driver to stop.

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Oh, Russia: How Not to Stop When a Police Officer Pulls You Over

If there was ever a driver more eager to stop upon being signaled by police officers on foot, it would be the person sitting behind the wheel of this black-colored Lada Niva (some of you may also know the rugged 4x4 as the VAZ-2121).

The Niva was traveling on the road when all of a sudden; two Russian traffic cops came out of the woods and walked inside the first lane to signal the driver to stop.

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Lada Driver Gets a Crash Lesson in Tailgating

Driving too close to a vehicle in front of you, especially a truck that obscures your view of the road ahead, is just asking for trouble.

And indeed, trouble is what the driver of a Lada Niva 4x4 received when he got up close and personal to a large lorry on a Russian highway as he was swinging left to right in an attempt to overpass it.

See what happened next in the video after the break.

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You know You Shouldn't be Driving When…

We have watched this video several times and still cannot find a reasonable excuse for why the driver of the Lada Niva crashed into a stopped car on the opposite side of the road.

Even if the pedestrians crossing the road surprised the driver, we can't see why she (according to the YouTube poster) didn't stop her vehicle before it hit the Mazda3.

Head past the break to watch the incident as it was recorded from a dashboard mounted camera.

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