Caught on camera: Tractor-trailer barrels toward vehicles at collision scene

A multi-vehicle pileup in Texas was partially captured in a dramatic video of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slamming into the accident scene.

A multi-vehicle pileup in Texas on Friday was partially captured in a dramatic video of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slamming into the accident scene. A multi-vehicle pileup in Texas on Friday was partially captured in a dramatic video of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slamming into the accident scene.CNN affiliate KCBDPolice were investigating the crash when a semitruck traveling eastbound jackknifed and slid, coming to rest at the center median.

Caleb Holder, a KCBD photographer, was filming the accident scene, when a second 18-wheeler jackknifed to avoid a red SUV that changed lanes in front of it. The truck swerved off the road and rolled over on its side, striking several vehicles as it slid into a ditch directly in front of Holder, KCBD reported.

Both the driver and the trooper were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and are expected to survive, KCBD said. "I've never seen anything like that in person," Holder said.All in all, there were a total of five crashes, involving four semi tractor-trailers and four smaller vehicles, KCBD reported., causing a quarter mile or less of visibility. Drivers were advised to slow down to prevent injury.

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