This is the frightening moment a landslide sent giant boulders crashing over two trucks in Peruvian. The dramatic dashcam footage filmed inside a truck showed the giant rock tumbling down the side of a mountain on a road in the district of San Mateo on Saturday.
The boulder could been directly impacting the cargo area and turning the truck on its side. The driver traveling behind the destroyed truck slammed on his breaks just moments before a smaller boulder landed in front of his cabin. Dash cam from a tractor trailer captured the moment a truck was destroyed by a large boulder that fell from a mountain on a road in Peru on Saturday. The driver and another in a second truck that was also crushed by rocks were not injured.
The dash cam inside the tractor trailer captured its driver moments before he stopped the vehicle and fled as rocks from a mountain came crashing down over it on a road in San Mateo de Huanchor, Pero on Saturday. The man miraculously had enough time to remove his seatbelt and escape the cabin as more rocks began to rain down from the mountain. The cabin shook violently for several seconds as it rocks fell over it before the video recording came to an end. Cell phone video showed the giant boulder that hit the first truck lying several yards behind the wreckage and two large cracks on the road pavement.
The first truck that was leveled by multiple boulders was completely destroyed, but its driver survived. A truck was crushed by falling boulders from a mountain on a road in Peru on Saturday. The area was closed as officials investigated the cause of the rockslide and workers cleared the area within four hours. A truck driver abandons his cabin moments after the truck ahead of him was crushed by boulders falling from a mountain on a road in Peru on Saturday.
From a distance the person behind camera showed the second truck's crushed windshield. One person could be heard in the video saying that rocks were still sliding down the mountain as motorists assessed the damage. Access to the stretch of the road between the towns of Casapalca and Corcona was shut down as the National Police inspected the site and removed debris, which took four hours to complete.
