AKRON, Ohio (NBC News Channel) -- A semi-truck nearly caused a catastrophe in Akron, Ohio.

Surveillance
video shows the driver of the truck lose control and barely miss other
drivers and the gas pump. The truck was coming off I-77 and flew right
through the intersection before smashing into a pole and toppling over.

Employees
and customers at the marathon station came running to the driver's aid
and pulled both a woman - thought to be the driver - and a man from the
cab. Minutes earlier a car had been filling up at the very pump the
truck slammed into. The driver of the truck told officers the brakes
stopped working.

The driver will walk away with just a citation, but most importantly, everyone walked away unhur