A woman in Belgium is lucky to be alive after surviving a collision with two trucks on a freeway. Jasmien Claeys was exiting at Aalter when her light blue Ford abruptly changed lanes.
A dashboard camera on one of the trucks that hit Claeys' car shows that she switched lanes from the far left to the far right without seeing that traffic on the rightmost lane had already stopped.
The 25-year-old woman from Belgium was said to have been "in a coma for a while" but is now recovering from her injuries, which include two broken vertebrae and a crushed hand -- extremely lucky considering the way her car was totaled in the accident.
According to the website HNL.be, Claeys felt like she had a guardian angel, especially when she watched the video of the accident on Aug. 13 posted on Facebook by Marian Wójcik.
"I feel extremely happy," she said on the Dutch news site.
Claeys has a long road of rehabilitation and physical therapy ahead of her.
Highway accidents involving trucks often end with those in the car being killed. The sheer force of a collision with an 18-wheeler is enough to lead to serious injuries; however, statistics show that 72 percent of accidents with trucks are the fault of other vehicles.
As shown in the dashboard video involving Claeys, the accident could have been avoided by simply following general safety rules when driving on high-speed roads, especially around big rucks that hinder vision and create bigger blind spots than normal.
