Driver who survived being crushed between two semi-trailers in Oregon

A DRIVER whose vehicle was crushed between two semi-trailers has walked away from the crash with nothing more than a couple of Band-Aids.

Kaleb Whitby, 27, was caught in a dramatic pileup on Saturday involving as many as 70 cars and 17 trucks. Six people were hospitalised, one in a serious condition.

Mr Whitby’s amazing survival was captured in a photo showing his mangled four-wheel-drive crushed like a pancake between two trucks on an icy highway in the state’s northeast.

“Thank God that I’m still alive,” Mr Whitby told the Oregonian. “Now I’ve got to go figure out why.”

The huge crash was blamed on heavy fog, black ice, heavy winds and freezing conditions, the newspaper said.

Mr Whitby slammed into the first semi, which was jackknifed across the Interstate 84, about 50 kilometres from Baker City, as he rounded a curve in thick fog.

Flipped around and splayed out with his passenger side facing oncoming traffic, he said the headlights of another oncoming truck filled his window frame.

“I just braced and hoped that everything would be all right,” the father-of-one said, adding that he starting praying as the truck was seconds from smashing into him.