It's quite common for a motor vehicle to overtake a cyclist, and then turn left and hit them. This has happened to me, though fortunately it wasn't a truck. I was luckier than the poor lady who was killed last month.
Skip and tipper lorry drivers are often paid per load, they get paid to deliver or take away spoil. They are also, in my experience, often homicidally reckless.
Skip and tipper lorry drivers are often paid per load, they get paid to deliver or take away spoil. They are also, in my experience, often homicidally reckless.
. Needed to give the car a run as haven't used it for a month. On the outskirts of town on the south side there is a new road underpass industrial area being built and the road has been slightly re-directed into a huge chicane with 20mph limit adjacent to the old road for a short stretch. There is loads of mud all over the road. As I was driving through the chicane this morning a huge new looking double wheeled tipper truck suddenly pulled out in front of me from the site with out looking. I had to brake hard even at 20mph ........... Anyway I let it get a bit ahead as I was concerned with the large amount of mud falling from the back so I as I say I kept well back. The truck leaves the 20mph limit in which it accelerated to 30-35mph quite quickly anyway so breaking the speed limit there and then entered into a 30mph zone going past houses and a large school. I was driving at smack on 30mph, but the tipper truck was rapidly disapppearing into the distance. There are many warning signs indicating the school and school kids. I reckon he must have been doing 45-50mph along this 30mph road 
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