Man escapes massive Oregon pileup that completely crushed his truck with only a scratch
Kaleb Whitby needed only a couple bandages and an ice pack after two semi-trucks sandwiched his car in an icy pileup involving more than 100 people.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, January 18, 2015, 9:15 AM
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SERGI KARPLYUKKaleb Whitby sandwiched between two-tractor trailers in Oregon.
A man pinned between two semi-trucks miraculously survived a highway pileup in Oregon Saturday morning with just a scratch.
Kaleb Whitby, 27, can be seen inside his pickup truck squished between two trailers caused by an early morning crash.
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"Thank God that I'm still alive," Whitby told The Oregonian. "Now I've got to go figure out why."
The Interstate 84 crash took place 33 miles east of Baker City and involved more than 100 people, reports The Oregonian. Officials told the paper that an estimated 20 vehicles, mostly semi-trucks, were involved in at least three separate crashes that injured 12 people on a quarter-mile stretch of the icy road.
Whitby, a farmer with a pregnant wife and 2-year-old son in Washington, was traveling to Council, Idaho, Saturday morning to pick up two truckloads of cattle. To avoid a semi he swerved to the right, but instead hit the back end of the trailer causing him to flip. He watched as an oncoming truck hit his vehicle, and after impact saw that the steering column was lodged into his right hip, reports The Oregonian.
He called out for help, and Sergi Karplyuk, another driver at the accident, found him and took a photo of Whitby looking sideways from his sandwiched vehicle.
The most severely of the dozen injured is reportedly in critical condition. Despite his frightening predicament, Whitby said he only needed two Band-Aids and an ice pack.
