WAKEFIELD, QC. — Several people in eastern Canada are still alive today only because a truck driver from Northeastern Quebec saved their lives Tuesday, and they might not even know it.

According to MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police spokesman Const. Martin Fournel, two cars were sitting at an intersection on highway 105 in this Gatineau-area village when a southbound logging truck started losing control.

Another trucker, this one with an empty flatbed on his way to a pickup in Low, Quebec, noticed the truck in peril with its loose load and he sped up to place his vehicle between the rolling logs and the two cars, so his truck took the hit.

The logging truck then overturned. And the cars drove away, apparently unaware of their close call. Amazingly, nobody was injured in the event.

The flatbed, Fournel told todaystrucking.com, suffered about $5,000 in damages, but the driver managed to repair his vehicle enough the next day that he could limp home to St. Georges, Que., about an hour east of Quebec City.

Police are still investigating the cause of the accident and Fournel said that investigators found enough problems with the logging truck that it should have been put OOS before the incident.

Fournel said that he has been on the local force for about 16 years and he estimated that he has seen about one accident a year at the intersection where the accident occurred.

Click here to see the police photos of the accident.