The heart-stopping moment a motorcyclist slides under a speeding a truck . . . and survives

Well-known motorsport vlogger Hammy Moto survived a spectacular crash on a US freeway. Photo / YouTube

An American motorcyclist and well-known vlogger could well be the luckiest person alive.

The biker, known as Hammy Moto, uploaded GoPro footage of his near-fatal crash on
a Southern California freeway earlier this week.

The video - viewed over 940,000 times - shows Moto wobbling, and losing control of his Kawasaki Z1000 before spilling and sliding towards a semi-truck in another lane.

Sparks fly as Moto slides underneath the moving truck - and miraculously emerges on the other side unscathed but for a few scrapes and bruises.

A number of people then rush to his aid, as he comes to a stop in front of oncoming traffic. As he gets up, Moto shouts repeatedly: "I'm not dead!"

Moto admits he's lucky to be alive.

"I'm very lucky to be alive. I slid through a tiny gap between the truck's rear tires and the trailer stand. If was going any slower or faster, I wouldn't of been so fortunate.

"The only injuries I got was a very small amount of road rash on my knee and hip. Nothing broken. I'm very blessed.

"How did I get the wobbles? No, I didn't wheelie. I was merging onto the freeway, checking traffic while I ventured over to the carpool lane.

"When I got next to the carpool lane, I check if it was clear again, then merged in while quickly accelerating in first gear.

"When I got up to enough speed to pass traffic (Traffic was doing 120km/h-130km/h) I changed into second gear (where the clip starts)."

Moto, who has over 22,000 subscribers to his YouTube page he erred while accelerating.

"First mistake I made was having my weight way too far back on the bike while accelerating, that mixed with the extremely bumpy freeway and the acceleration of the bike caused the front wheel to go extremely light. Thus causing the violent speed wobbles."

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