That’s It, I’m not going by motorway again

[Marcella Ross]

Good God! How the heck didn’t the driver here or feel anything as it initially hit it?
😮 😮 😮 😮

[Harry Cleary]

😮 😮 She must have been there when he started off, there doesn’t seem to be any damage to the car.

[John Gregson]

Got to be a fake – at that speed the tyres on the car would either explode or try and hold the road then the car would either roll or be thrown all over the shop. Its traveling too smoothly – its a good fake though. 😀

[Nigel Hindley]

well the BBC have a good lenghty article about this, I did think it was a fake initially, if it is its taken the BBC in.

Apparently no one was injured the police did attend and no one was charged/ That was until this video appeared on You tube now its opened the investigation up and the driver has been suspended.

Nige

[Peter Normington]

I think the tyres already had burst,
My opinion of how it happened…
the car driver cut in to early when overtaking the truck, and the rear nearside touched the off side front of the truck, because they were traveling at near enough the same speed the car just rolled around in front of the truck,, it is conceivable that the truck driver never felt an impact, or if he did, it could have been similar to driving over a pothole.

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

I had an accident years ago – me and a 40 footer. I was in the inside lane and the truck was pulling on to the inside lane after overtaking a vehicle behind me. But the lorry driver, as he pulled in, didn’t see me, I was in his blind spot. He clipped my car on the rear offside causing my car to spin round and side on to the truck in the same position as you saw in the video here. But rather than me staying there I was shunted out onto the fast lane spinning around again.
I think she may have been hit in the same way I was but the initial impact maybe at a slower speed and that’s why she got ‘stuck’ there??

[John Gregson]

I saw the report on the local news last night – thought it couldn’t be true but it was. That would have been scary 😮 Interviewed the lady who was driving and she even had time to call 999 on her mobile :lol1:

Still don’t know how it took so long for the driver to see he had impailled a car :lol1:

[Hugh Potter]

quote Peter Normington:

I think the tyres already had burst,
My opinion of how it happened…
the car driver cut in to early when overtaking the truck, and the rear nearside touched the off side front of the truck, because they were traveling at near enough the same speed the car just rolled around in front of the truck,, it is conceivable that the truck driver never felt an impact, or if he did, it could have been similar to driving over a pothole.

Peter

in her interview on the TV she said that the lorry was overtaking her and then, the next thing she knew as that she was in front of the truck.

personally i don’t see how that is possible, though your explanation Peter, did cross my mind. the weather was also very bad and as someone who has driven artics in that kind of weather, I can honestly say that you’re not necessarily looking down the front of the cab, through all the spray and rain you’re looking as far down the road as you possibly can and checking mirrors, not 6ft in front which in all likelyhood, is pretty much a blind spot in conditions like that.

i would reckon the fact that he’s pulling a 40ft tanker weighing around 34ton with a very powerful truck, would also explain why he wouldn’t have been slowed by the car.

more i think of it, there’s only three ways she could have ended up there….

1), she was parked there when he pulled away,
2), she was in the inside lane but, was so busy doing her lippy that she lost control, spun out and ended up infront of the truck,
3), exactly as Peter says, overtaking, cut in, slid round and was pushed.

even if he’d seen her, we have to remember he’s a professional driver, HGV licenses aren’t given out like car licenses! he would have to keep going and slowing gradually to prevent her car from being left to go along the road sideways on it’s own, the front of his cab was the only thing stopping it rolling, I wouldn’t mind betting he knew that and chose to stop safely instead of panicing and hitting the brakes!