
No one encounters a traffic jam and smiles about it, but after hearing this driver speak about why he stopped in the middle of the highway — it’s hard not to.
In this dash cam clip, YouTuber Renegade Trucker encounters significant traffic jam on a Dallas highway. After clearing the traffic, he sees a tractor trailer, a compact vehicle, and several police cruisers in the middle of the road.
At first it appears that the semi may have rear-ended the car, but after speaking to the driver on the CB radio, a completely different situation is revealed.
The truck driver says he purposely stopped and blocked off traffic in order to protect the elderly driver who hit him.
You can hear the CB radio conversation around the 1:08 mark.
“She backed in to me and I figured I’d stay right there to make sure she didn’t get hit by oncoming traffic,” the driver says.
The driver who recorded the video said the motorist was an elderly woman “who was possibly suffering from dementia.”
Selfless acts like these are why truckers were once considered highway heroes, and it’s great to see that even in this day and age the saying still holds true.