A driver is fortunate to be alive after narrowly avoiding an out-of-control vehicle during a terrifying multi-car collision on a Los Angeles freeway, an incident that tragically resulted in one fatality.

Video footage captured the moment when a driver collided with another man’s parked car on the 101 freeway in Encino early Saturday morning. The crash narrowly missed the driver, sending his car skidding down the freeway.

Subsequently, as the two drivers surveyed the damage, a third vehicle slammed into the wreckage, hitting one of the men directly. Remarkably, the other driver appeared to escape unharmed.

At that point, a fourth vehicle came hurtling towards the scene, prompting the unharmed driver to climb onto the freeway’s center divider for safety as the car crashed into the existing wreckage.

The identity of the individual who lost their life in this chaotic crash has not yet been released.

Emergency crews from the Los Angeles Fire Department had to employ the jaws of life to extract one of the drivers involved, according to a report by MyNewsLA.

The pile-up resulted in the freeway’s northbound lanes being closed south of White Oak Avenue.

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California Highway Patrol Sgt. Hines told KTLA that the chain-reaction began with a “solo crash that caused the vehicle to be disabled in the number one lane.” CHP told the outlet that the victim victim killed in the crash was a man.

Hines warned drivers to never exit their vehicles.

“It’s very dangerous and we would advise the public that anytime you are involved in a traffic crash, if at all possible, move to the right shoulder,” he told KTLA.

“And if not, in your vehicle with your seatbelt [buckled] is the safest place to be,” he added.