Kaleb Whitby, 27, stares out calmly from the mangled wreckage of his Chevy Silverado after the two semi-trucks smashed into each other on the I-84 in Oregon - with him in the middle.

Despite his precarious position wedged between the two metal trailers, and with a steering column tight against his leg, Whitby emerged from the deathtrap almost entirely unscathed.

He posed for the photograph, taken by another truck driver invovled in the Saturday morning 50-driver pileup, which left 18-wheelers sprawled across the icy freeway outside Baker City, Oregon.

Whitby described the terrifying moments before his unlikely survival to The Oregonian, saying he swerved to avoid a jackknifed truck - only to get crushed by another out of control big rig.

He had been driving up an incline behind the vehicle for a while, Whitby said, but backed away because the fog was so thick.

The next time he saw it, the big rig was splayed across the lanes of the freeway, leaving him nowhere to go.

He tried to swerve round it, but hit the back end and was left sat on the road, side-on to approaching traffic.

(dailymail.co.uk)