THIS is the terrifying moment a BMW crashes head-on into traffic after a van driver makes a U-turn – triggering a dramatic five-car pile up.

Three people were reportedly injured in the horror crash including a 42-year-old driver of a Lada, and his 17-year-old passenger.

The victims were rushed to hospital where they were treated for varying injuries.

According to police, the 55-year-old BMW driver crashed into five vehicles on the Dzhubga–Sochi highway in Russia on Tuesday.

Dashcam footage shows the vehicle trying to swerve the van before smashing head-on into another car.

The video shows debris flying across the road as cars dramatically crash into each other.

No one was hurt in the other vehicles involved, which included a Volkswagen, a Mercedes, a Nissan, and a Chery, cops said, as the van driver reportedly fled the scene.

Traffic was held at a standstill on the downhill double lane after the accident.

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Krasnodar Krai said the circumstances of the incident are still being determined.

It comes just days after a truck driver suddenly pulled a U-turn on a busy highway and killed three in a horrific T-bone crash.

Harjinder Singh, who has been living in the US illegally since 2018, allegedly made the fatal turn on an “Official Use Only” area on the Florida Turnpike

With little time to stop and no where to turn off, the minivan is believed to have slammed into the commercial semi-truck at full pelt – killing the driver and two passengers.

Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said troopers were rushed to the scene just before 3pm on August 12, where they extricated the victims from the van.

Terrifying footage shows the moment Singh blocked the highway causing the incoming Chrysler Town and Country minivan to slam into the lorry.

The obliterated minivan’s parts appear strewn across the toll road as rescue teams desperately try to retrieve the bodies.

According to Flordia Highway Patrol, Singh crossed over the northbound travel lanes to make the turn when the people carrier – also travelling north – smashed into the truck.

It then became wedged under the left side of the trailer, killing two passengers instantly.

While the driver was pulled out of the vehicle alive, they tragically died in Lawnwood Hospital, Fort Pierce that evening.