Truck driver tests positive to drugs after near misses caught on dashcam in Adelaide Hills

Wild footage has emerged of a B-double driver swerving into oncoming traffic on a narrow Hills road while one witness confronted the truckie and stopped his highway to hell ride.

The driver of a B-double truck filmed serving into the path of oncoming traffic tested positive to meth and cannabis, as shocking footage of the driving emerges.

A driver trailing the truck caught the shocking dashcam footage of a series of close calls between the B-double and oncoming traffic on a winding Adelaide Hills road.

The video – uploaded to the Dashcams Adelaide Facebook page – shows the truck well into the wrong lane and in the path of oncoming traffic while navigating tight turns where visibility is impacted by the steep hills.

A driver caught the shocking dashcam footage of a series of close calls between a B-double and oncoming traffic on a winding Adelaide Hills road. Picture: Dashcams Adelaide

Cars are seen to be forced to slam on their brakes and others coming dangerously close to colliding with the heavy vehicle. Picture: Dashcams Adelaide

Cars are seen to be forced to slam on their brakes and others coming dangerously close to colliding with the heavy vehicle.

Adelaide hills mother Carly Atkinson was travelling behind the truck with her daughter in the back seat told 7NEWS she saw an opportunity to act when the truck stopped at an intersection.

“I needed to stop this person from killing someone,” she said to 7NEWS.

I got to the truck and asked if he was ok,” she said.

“He said ‘I’m just a little lost’ so I asked him to turn the truck off so I could hear him properly.

“As soon as he turned the truck off, I told him he was driving dangerously, and he needed to hand me the keys.”

Atkinson explained to 7NEWS she then reached in and confiscated the truck driver’s keys.

A police spokesperson confirmed a patrol pulled over a B-double on North East Rd, Chain of Ponds, just after 3.30pm on March 25 after a report from a concerned motorist.

“The 34-year-old Victorian driver, who was off-route, tested positive to cannabis and methamphetamine and was issued with an immediate 24-hour direction not to drive.,” the SA Police spokesperson said.

“He was also issued with a three-month loss of licence while the sample was sent for forensic testing.”

The man also received an expiation notice for minor work diary breaches.

A police spokesperson confirmed a patrol pulled over a B-double on North East Rd, Chain of Ponds just after 3.30pm on March 25 after a report from a concerned motorist.

The dashcam footage was posted online with comments critical of how a B-double came to be on a route restricted for such trucks.

“Lucky they didn’t take anyone out,” one posted.

“It’s lucky he didn’t drop off the edge on a bend going up through there, it’s that winding and tight cars find it tight in some spots, that would be an absolute nightmare in a B-double … can’t they see the signs saying no trucks,” another commented.

In South Australia, B-doubles are primarily restricted to a designated 26m B-double network.

Originally published as Truck driver tests positive to drugs after near misses caught on dashcam in Adelaide Hills