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Incredible footage has emerged from inside a truck that careered into several lanes of oncoming traffic before crashing into a backyard in Melbourne’s outer-east.
The Neil Mitchell program has been leaked dashcam footage of last weekend’s Heathmont crash, and obtained new details about what caused the incident.
3AW Mornings can reveal the truck driver suffered a coughing fit and may have blacked out before swerving onto the the road side of Canterbury Road on Saturday.
Incredibly, the truck driver escaped with minor injuries, little more than a black eye, and no one else was hurt.
Power lines were brought down and half a house was knocked down.
“As usual, the truckie has got the blame,” Neil Mitchell said.
“But today I want to stand up for him.
“The footage shows he wasn’t speeding, and you can tell the truck basically does not have a driver as it slowly veers across the busy road in the house.”