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Originally Posted by aSSian
it looks as thought the traffic in front of the semi was stopped, and maybe the truck driver wasn't paying attention, knew he was going to slam into the traffic, so he tried to cut across the road, and BAM. 
couldn't have been brake failure, because he was able to stop...across the road. Had his brakes failed, he would have kept on rolling after the impact. |
I'm not discounting that the truck driver wasn't paying attention, but it's plausible that the truck would have come to a complete stop after that collision even if his brakes weren't working.
The trailers of the two trucks could have latched together and prevented them both from going anywhere else.
Either way, that Russian is a lucky guy.