The owner of a lifted Chevy pickup confidently drove into a ditch on a flooded dirt road in Texas, but was quickly caught.
A concerned passerby tried his best to warn the driver, but he stood still and Recorded the incident on his phone as he refused to follow her advice.
At the beginning of the clip, the truck appears to go through the deep puddle without any problems.
But suddenly, the front part plunges into a huge trench hidden by accumulated water. There was a giant splash before the truck stopped moving completely and became stuck in the mud.
“I tried to tell him,” the woman behind the camera said once it was clear the vehicle was going nowhere.
Right now, the lifted Chevy seems to be moving along nicely.
The drama unfolded on April 27 in Kaufman County, just east of the Dallas-Forth Worth area.
A suspension lift kit is commonly added to trucks to get an elevated view of the road, according to a blog from a Chevy dealer in Georgia.
The next most common reason is to allow the vehicle to leave the road and avoid rocks, fallen logs and mud pits, the dealership said.
Of course, Chevy trucks aren’t the only ones that have problems in situations like the one in the video.
Seconds later, it plunges into an unexpectedly deep ditch, leaving the vehicle stuck.
Tesla’s new Cybertruck has been announced as a vehicle that can travel off-road.
the owner’s manual It even has an entire section dedicated to how drivers should prepare for off-road use.
But electric truck owners have had mixed experiences.
A video posted on YouTube showed the silver vehicle stuck while trying to cross a California estuary.
‘I wouldn’t take a 100,000 truck on a river like that. “First of all, it’s electric so I’d be worried about that,” one commenter on the video wrote.
“Secondly, just because it has 1,000 horsepower and tons of torque or whatever, doesn’t mean it can do anything.”
