Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Why doesn't he go into reverse?

Probably not a good idea as he'd have a chance of going under the wheels

Properly owned. After "driving" it so sideways, even the rims have flatspots.

Astonishing, I wonder what the full story is. I tried to find out from the comments but it was just you tube arguments. :/

A1 near Wetherby - straight ghetto.

OMG! Full 90 Sideways action!!!

saw that on LFSD, scary as hell.

Holy Crap Indeed.

Quote from DejaVu :

Probably not a good idea as he'd have a chance of going under the wheels

I think you'd have less chance by going into reverse after 30 seconds of so of it instead of being under it for miles.

It's true. Actually I have a story. A good friend of my dad is a truck driver, who did exactly the same few years ago. In this case he pushed a Polski 126. He said he didn't notice anything at all, and couldn't see the car since it's too small. The only thing he noticed was that the truck was accelerating a bit slowly.

Freakin' heavy track vs. 600kg.

Quote from StableX :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/eng ... est_yorkshire/8574609.stm

"He added that he believed the female driver of the Clio had not been injured in the incident."

Well that explains everything

Quote from squidhead :

OMG! Full 90 Sideways action!!!

You sir, you have just finished this thread.

Can't see, what's on the vid, because it's deleted, but if my guessing is correct, i think i saw it few days ago. I'd at least spill coffee on his front glass, if nothing else.

omg omg omg omg there was just a millitary helicopter flying just over the tree tops, it was sooo big http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/I ... px?~12598~Helikopter%2010 not the one but its the same


it was almost as close as this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epR7a9jv3qM

Old, but same kind of incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1LM8TtSLZ0

Yep this was the first thing I remebered of when seing the OP. Nothing really personal but I actually hate some truckers, especially some of their highway annoying moves.

Would say it is the Clio drivers fault, there's no way the truck changed lane and hit the clio and didn't notice anything. The clio most probably ended up infront of the truck before the truck started moving, or the Clio joined the motorway in the trucks blind spot, or undertook.

Quote from Clio Lady :

I rang 999 whilst inside the car and I screamed "I'm going to die, I'm going to die. Why won't you help me?"

I think this statement shows the kind of mentality of the Clio driver.

Was just on ITV News. Video was removed. I'm talking about the first one BTW .

Quote from BlueFlame :

Would say it is the Clio drivers fault,

Despite knowing **** all about the circumstances. This demonstrates why everybody thinks you're a ****ing idiot.

The driver is from York, it sounds like the truck pulled into her lane and clipped her car.

Quote :

The terrified driver then grabbed her mobile phone from her handbag and rang police.
“I wasn't on hands-free, but I figured I wasn't really driving the car,” she told newspapers on Monday.

haha

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Despite knowing **** all about the circumstances. This demonstrates why everybody thinks you're a ****ing idiot.

The driver is from York, it sounds like the truck pulled into her lane and clipped her car.

Well the smart thing to do is not sit in a trucks blind spot, regardless of who switched to whatever lane. She says on the statement that he was in the centrelane and that she didn't deviate from her path, well how is it that the video shows the truck in the centrelane, with the car still jammed infront of the truck? The evidence is there that she undertook.

Still, the truck driver should of noticed regardless, but it doesn't mean it was his fault that the accident occurred.



Clearly all you see is a truck pushing a car and automatically think the truck driver is at fault. I however am not constantly thinking inside a tiny box. Use your head.

Quote from BlueFlame :

She says on the statement that he was in the centrelane and that she didn't deviate from her path, well how is it that the video shows the truck in the centrelane, with the car still jammed infront of the truck? The evidence is there that she undertook.

Or the truck moved into the inside lane, then back out with a car attached. Or into the inside lane enough to tip the car and then back into the outside lane.

Of course I'm thinking in my tiny little box where trucks can change lanes more than once per journey, which of course is unlikely to ever happen.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Or the truck moved into the inside lane, then back out with a car attached. Or into the inside lane enough to tip the car and then back into the outside lane.

Of course I'm thinking in my tiny little box where trucks can change lanes more than once per journey, which of course is unlikely to ever happen.

The car is sitting in contact with the HGV. If he turned then the car would have moved off the front bumper. What reason did he have to move into the middle lane from what you see in that video? Non. Which says to me, he just overtook someone. That someone probably being the woman in the Clio.

Quote from BlueFlame :

The car is sitting in contact with the HGV. If he turned then the car would have moved off the front bumper. What reason did he have to move into the middle lane from what you see in that video? Non. Which says to me, he just overtook someone. That someone probably being the woman in the Clio.

The only way the Clio could end up in that position is if either the Clio had pulled out into the front of the truck and clipped it, or the truck had pulled in, into the back of the Clio. You're assuming that she undertook the truck but if the truck's in the middle lane in the first place, it's probably passing something slow. So the chances are she was infront of the slow thing and it caught her while re-entering the left-most lane.

The truck driver changing lanes is less likely to spot a nearby small car than a small car changing lanes is likely to miss a ****ing huge tanker.

As for changing lanes whilst pushing a sideways car - I don't know, I've never seen it happen before. Perhaps there was some part of the car awkwardly attached to the truck, it's not difficult to imagine that bits of bodywork got bent, there are plenty of edges on the side of a car to get stuck against something.

But if you think she undertook a tanker that was dawdling in the middle lane for some strange reason, then please do stick to your assumption. I've never seen a tanker do that but maybe it happens. I'm not really interested in deciding whose fault it was because I'm not an all-knowing ****head like you are.

There would probably be a pretty decent amount of friction between the car & the truck since the car is, you know, being pushed SIDEWAYS at 100km/h. It's not like a lane change is akin to a high speed hairpin or something, it's easily conceivable that a lane change could occur without losing the car. In fact, the article says that he maneovered onto the hard shoulder and judging by the context of what else is said, the car went with him.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

The only way the Clio could end up in that position is if either the Clio had pulled out into the front of the truck and clipped it, or the truck had pulled in, into the back of the Clio. You're assuming that she undertook the truck but if the truck's in the middle lane in the first place, it's probably passing something slow. So the chances are she was infront of the slow thing and it caught her while re-entering the left-most lane.

The truck driver changing lanes is less likely to spot a nearby small car than a small car changing lanes is likely to miss a ****ing huge tanker.

As for changing lanes whilst pushing a sideways car - I don't know, I've never seen it happen before. Perhaps there was some part of the car awkwardly attached to the truck, it's not difficult to imagine that bits of bodywork got bent, there are plenty of edges on the side of a car to get stuck against something.

But if you think she undertook a tanker that was dawdling in the middle lane for some strange reason, then please do stick to your assumption. I've never seen a tanker do that but maybe it happens. I'm not really interested in deciding whose fault it was because I'm not an all-knowing ****head like you are.

Well you are pretty much saying what I said to MYSELF apart from the whole insulting people because I don't have an arguement thing. If you have two square objects and push them forward in a tandem position the rear-most square will push the fore-most square, but if you turn them a few degrees and push in the same direction, the fore-most square will veer off from the front of the rear-most square. This is my theory as to why the truck hasn't changed lane.


If what she says is true and she didn't deviate her path, then She's obviously undertook, or stayed the same speed as the truck as he's passed another vehicle. Which renderers it her fault anyway but the fact the truck was still in the middle-lane to me, it just seems more logical that she turned out infront of him whilst changing lane, or joining the motorway. Sure, you would see a truck more easily than a car, but people have done it before now, and will continue to do it. Just a case of people not looking, "I DINT SEE YAW". "Yea cos you didn't ****ing look." It's just how it goes. It's how alot of accidents occur.