A motorbike rider has miraculously escaped disaster after nearly going under the wheel of a large truck while trying to lane filter inside a busy Melbourne tunnel.
Wild footage of the rider clinging to his bike as it was dragged along the CityLink tollway has been shared online after the incident last week.
“Hesitant to upload as the guy nearly died but here it is,” the person who caught the footage said.
The video, taken about 4.30pm last Tuesday in the Burnley Tunnel at Richmond, shows the motorbike approaching a van in one lane with the truck in the other.
Just as its rider attempts to drive between them, the bike is clipped on its right hand side and it begins to violently wobble.
The bike crashes to the road before being pulled under the wheels of the truck, with sparks seen flying from the scraping bike.
Its rider somehow avoided going under the truck himself, with the footage showing him lying on top of the motorbike and paddling at the tarmac with his left hand.
The drivers of the van and truck respectively slammed on their brakes within seconds of the crash.
It was unclear if the rider was injured during the incident and Victoria Police said the incident had not been reported.
There have been shocked reactions to the incident with the footage viewed hundreds of thousands of times since being shared on the Dash Cam Owners Australia page last Wednesday.
Many agreed the motorbike rider was “lucky to be alive”.
Others pointed out there was a free lane to the left of the truck that could have been used to safely overtake both vehicles.
“Lucky the oversized driver was a professional driver. Obviously checking his mirrors and noticed, stopped and saved a life,” one commenter wrote.
“Should buy a lottery ticket … What was he attempting?” another asked
The truck driver has been contacted for comment.
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