Just after midnight on May 18, 2026, the eastbound 10 Freeway near Sierra Avenue in Bloomington turned into a scene that most drivers would only expect to see in an action movie. Emergency responders arrived to find a jackknifed semi truck and an SUV that had somehow ended up lodged directly underneath the trailer. Not alongside it. Not behind it. Underneath it.
The force of the collision was violent enough to shear the entire roof off the SUV. That detail alone tells you everything you need to know about the severity of the impact. The driver inside was pulled from the wreckage with CPR already in progress, which, as anyone who has ever listened to a police scanner knows, is one of the most grim phrases you can hear over radio traffic.
The driver was transported to a nearby trauma center in critical condition and, according to radio communications, was reportedly taken into surgery shortly after arrival. No updates on their condition have been made public as of this writing. The semi truck driver, on the other hand, stayed at the scene and declined medical treatment…