LUCKY DRiVER ESCAPED DEATH WHEN A GiANT BiG BOULDER ROCK ALMOST CRUSHED CAR iN TAiWAN captured on dashcam video ~ Saturday 31st August 2013 A Taiwanese motorist and their passenger travelling along a road in Keelung City, Taiwan had a very narrow escape from a disastrous death, after their car was almost crushed by a giant boulder the size of a bus. The huge rock rolled down from the top of the mountain (see video below) onto the road just as the driver was passing. NOTE: The boulder at the start of the video, which can be seen at the top of the frame, detaching from the mountain top above McDonalds… The motorist was extremely lucky when he swerved to the left to try and avoid the falling dirt suddenly seen, and then stopped the vehicle. Then the big boulder emerged from the wet muddy dirt landslide looking like it was going to topple onto the car before rocking back and stopping only inches away. The complete incident was captured on a dashboard mounted dashcam by Lai Hong-wei in the following car, while driving on a road along the country’s northern coast, during Tropical Storm Kong-rey‘s flooding weather (the 12th monsoon of the season). The driver and passenger both escaped with only minor injuries. See the extended video (courtesy of Lai Hong-wei via RT.com) with close up footage of the landslide and the damage to the car…
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- SOUTH CHiNA MORNiNG POST: Video: Miraculous escape for motorist in Taiwan as giant boulder narrowly misses car (2 September 2013) This is the dramatic moment a motorist escaped certain death after a landslide in Taiwan caused a giant boulder to crash onto a road… see more
- RT.com: Car engulfed in Taiwan landslide, narrowly missed by giant boulder (1 September 2013) A car on a coastal road in Keelung, northern Taiwan, was hit by a landslide and narrowly avoided being crushed by a large boulder on Saturday… see the extended video featuring the damage to the car
- DAiLY MAiL ONLiNE: A VERY lucky escape: Extraordinary video captures moment huge boulder crashes down cliff and misses passing car by yards [photos] (1 September 2013) Not many people have narrowly escaped death by as thin a margin as this Taiwanese motorist who was almost crushed to death by a massive boulder crashing down onto the road just a few yards away from him… see more
- EURONEWS: Captured on video: amazing escape in Taiwan landslide (1 September 2013) Extraordinary amateur video from Taiwan shows a landslide cascading down a hill, then hitting a car… see more
- The TELEGRAPH: Driver’s remarkable escape from giant boulder landslide caught on camera (1 September 2013) Dramatic amateur video has captured the moment when a car on a coastal road in Keelung, northern Taiwan, was hit by a landslide and narrowly avoided being crushed by a giant boulder… see more
- ABC NEWS: Massive boulder narrowly misses car during landslide in Taiwan (2 September 2013) A driver has narrowly escaped being crushed beneath a massive boulder that tumbled across a road in Taiwan during a landslide… see more
- NY DAiLY NEWS: SEE iT: Car narrowly avoids being crushed by boulder in Taiwanese landslide (2 September 2013) After Tropical Storm Kong-Rey slammed the nation with rain and wind, rocks are seen sliding down a hill. But as a massive boulder is about to crush the car, it falls in the opposite direction, sparing the passengers… see more
- The iNQUiSiTR: Driver Misses Giant Boulder Crushing Car By Inches [Video] (1 September 2013) A driver is almost crushed by a giant boulder falling on a mountain road somewhere in Taiwan. If you’re an extremely nervous driver, you better brace yourself before you hit that button to watch this newly posted video of an extremely lucky driver’s extremely close escape… see more
- LiVE LEAK: Must See: Giant Boulder Almost Crushes Car (1 September 2013) Car narrowly survives being crushed by a giant boulder in Taiwan… see video