Dashcam footage has captured the frightening moment a car collided head-on with a truck at a dangerous corner in western Sydney.
The truck was travelling on Blacktown Road, just outside Bligh Park, and heading towards Richmond when a woman turned right out of The Driftway and lost control.
The woman in the 4WD left plenty of space between her and on-coming traffic but fishtailed it onto the opposite land and into the truck travelling in the 80km/h zone.
The collision was absorbed by the woman’s large car and bulbar up front, with the airbag on the driver’s side activating almost immediately.
Two men in a car behind the woman, who were about to make the same turn, came to her rescue and helped her out of her crumpled vehicle.
The vision showed she was on her red P-plates which quickly sparked a reaction from shocked viewers on Facebook.
‘P-platers should be limited to standard cars, no turbos or mods and four cylinders only for the first two years of driving,’ one person wrote.
Others were sympathetic to the inexperienced driver who looked to be handling too much car on a part of the road that can be tricky to navigate.
‘Personally, it looks like a case of wet road, big car, and inexperienced driver,’ one person wrote.
‘She has probably had very little experience behind the wheel of a four-wheel drive and only driven normal cars and expected the same control and handling, and once the butt started moving sideways panicked, hit brakes, or even planted her foot out of sheer panic and it was all over from there.
‘Brake lock would have kept sliding as wide tires and wet roads are not a good match.’
The quick-thinking truckie did their best to avoid what could have been an even worse crash as he hit the brakes and slowed down significantly.
‘Good reaction from the truck driver! 75km/h down to approximately 30km/h at time of impact. That saved a lot of hurt,’ one person said.
While the woman was shaken as she got out of her smashed up car, the fate of the truck driver was unknown.
‘The truckie’s probably fine, I drive trucks, that kind of impact would leave him a bit shaken but largely ok,’ another wrote.
‘I’m assuming the truck held out better. It hasn’t had an airbag deployment, so it’s a moderately safe assumption,’ another posted.
‘Looks like it’s at the intersection of The Driftway and Blacktown Road. Sadly notorious for accidents,’ a third shared.