Mattress flies off a truck, causes accident and also saves the day

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Mattress flies off a truck, causes accident and also saves the day
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When you're hauling a bunch of stuff, always make sure your load is secure, even if it's a squishy mattress.

Motorcyclist Aaron Wood was riding his bike through the Clem 7 tunnel in Brisbane, Australia last week when a mattress flew off the back of a truck directly into his lane. Unable to avoid the mattress, Wood hit it with his bike, but fortunately, it was a mattress.

The squishy landing pad became lodged in his front tire, causing the bike to slow down rapidly. Fortunately, he was not rear ended, and was able to walk away from the wreck without serious injury.

"I was just very lucky to come out unscathed -- apart from some cuts to my hands," Wood told the Queensland Times.

This isn't the first time a mattress both caused an accident and simultaneously saved the day. In 2014, a video surfaced of a bicycle being taken out by a mattress, and in 2016, the same thing happened to a motorcycle rider in Thailand.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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