UPDATE 9/26: The owner and driver of the Corvette, Robert W., shared footage of the terrifying incident that was captured by the C8’s Performance Data Recorder in a Facebook group for C8 owners and pals, as reported by Road&ampTrack.

In his account of the incident, Robert explained that he and his wife Lisa had been out for a relaxed drive in their Corvette when they reached a four-way intersection. After coming to a quit, they proceeded previous the quit sign when “a truck from across the intersection came straight at us”.

Photos &amp Video Robert W. / Facebook

“In the video, you’ll see the truck heading right for us and hitting us head-on,” he wrote in the Facebook post. “After the initial impact, the truck driver continued to accelerate, only stopping after some remarkable witnesses intervened. I yelled at them to turn off the truck since it was leaking antifreeze on us.”

Following “a nerve-wracking wait”, firefighters arrived to stabilize the Chevy Silverado truck, but it took about “20 minutes” to cost-free them from inside the auto simply because the truck’s wheels had been blocking the doors. “Thankfully, my wife and I were both uninjured,” Robert stated. “We’re incredibly grateful for the C8’s engineering – it held up amazingly well”.

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There are increasingly vocal issues about the size and height of pickup trucks, and in at least 1 case, that imperious stature has led to everyone’s worst worry: a monster truck-style crash with a smaller sized auto, in this case, a C8 Corvette. Fortunately, authorities say that no injuries had been reported as a outcome of this bizarre accident.

The collision took spot in Thornton, Colorado, just a handful of miles north of Denver. Although the nearby fire division did not supply detailed info about the incident’s situations, it is evident that a head-on collision occurred in between a black Chevrolet Silverado and an orange Chevrolet C8 Corvette

Subsequently, the truck seemed to have climbed onto the low-slung sports auto, eventually ending up on its roof. Thankfully, the efforts to boost the Corvette’s security in a rollover situation proved profitable, as the mid-engine Chevy managed to assistance the weight of the considerably bigger truck.

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Unfortunately for the driver of the Corvette, in spite of not suffering injuries critical adequate to warrant a hospital pay a visit to, they had been nonetheless trapped in their car for a period of time. That’s simply because the Silverado landed with 1 wheel on the driver-side door.

As a outcome, very first responders with the City of Thornton Fire Department had been forced to jack up the Silverado and take away its passenger-side wheel in order to supply adequate clearance to open the Corvette’s door and let the driver out. Not positive I’d want to be stuck below a Silverado for any quantity of time.

While it is wonderful to hear that there had been no critical injuries, it is challenging not to marvel at the luck of everybody involved. It’s also challenging to envision how badly factors could have gone if the Corvette in this incident had been of the exact same vintage as the Silverado.

Photos Thornton Fire Department