A truck driver narrowly escaped a Final Destination-style death after the steel beams he was hauling pierced the back of his cab.
The driver was driving down East Dixit Drive in Asheboro, North Carolina, when the straps securing the beams to the back of the trailer snapped.
As he pulled to a stop, the large objects slammed through the back of the cab, photos showed.
The beams left a gaping hole in the side of the truck, but the driver was fortunately not harmed, Fox 8 reported.
‘When I saw the metal beams … I expected him to be hurt pretty bad,’ Fire Battalion Chief Brian Hussey told the outlet.
‘The driver was pretty lucky because the metal beams were probably 16 to 18 inches from his head.’
The scene was eerily similar to one in Final Destination 2, where the straps securing wooden logs to a truck snapped, causing the poles to fall onto the highway and straight through a windshield, killing one unlucky fictional driver.
Anyone who witnessed the crash was thinking the same thing as they feared the worst for the North Carolina driver.
‘[I was] just hoping the driver was okay… It looked like something out of a movie,’ Byron Clegg, a witness, told Fox 8.
‘I heard a loud boom… When I heard the loud boom, I went and looked,’ a surprised Clegg added.
The driver praised god for his good luck.
‘He said he thanked God, and he prayed every day, and he said it worked today,’ Hussey told Fox 8.
Last month, a Georgia woman who managed to escape her vehicle after a car crash tragically died after she fell down a well just moments later.
Mom-of-four Shirley Obert’s body was discovered by police at bottom of a ‘deep well that was surrounded by very thick brush’ near where her car was found, authorities said.
‘Mrs. Obert appeared to have been trying to go for help when this incident occurred. This appears to be a tragic accident,’ Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.
‘Please keep her family and her co-workers in your thoughts and prayers.’
A spokeswoman with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office told DailyMail.com: ‘The well was covered under thick brush and would not have been noticeable.’
‘We do not know exactly how she ended up in the wooded area, where her car was found. Our fatality Investigator is working on trying to piece everything together. We may never know exactly,’ they added.