Nice HGV driver - doesn't see car.

[jayonabike]

So it WAS real then....jesus

 

[Bman]

Shocking.

 

[Plax]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8574609.stm

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

bloody hell it's was real. why did the police not sort it out in jan?

 

[ComedyPilot]

bloody hell it's was real. why did the police not sort it out in jan?

They did, and wrote it off (from evidence at the time) to be a damage-only RTC.

They are now investigating further due to the video.

 

[chap]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8574609.stm

Being a spokesman must be one of the most soul destroying experiences on the planet. In a bid to shirk responsibility some anonymous wretch with a bad suit for a personality comes on and states in monotone an abstraction the absolute obvious.

'An incident took place'

Had the car driver died then we would hear: 'Lessons have been learnt'.

Why these people are allowed to get away with this rubbish shows the absolute lack of accountability required from anyone with power/ money.

 

[HLaB]

Not necessarily ... I've "lost" a car in the blindspot on the nearside of the cab in that very model of truck before now, and I can easily imagine a situation on a motorway where the car driver gets into that blindspot without the driver seeing him. Say - and I have no way of knowing if this is what actually happened - the lorry driver is in the middle lane overtaking another truck. The car driver enters the motorway at a slip road unseen by the lorry driver, who then pulls back across, quite properly, into the inside lane. In doing so, he clips the back of the car, spinning it around into the front of his truck. All accomplished within the driver's blind spots and all without the sort of impact which the driver of something weighing 44 tonnes might be expected to notice.

Mind you IIRC there was a case on the M50 (Dublin) where two trucks converging at the toll booth queues did not notice the car they were gradually crushing.

 

[BlueDog]

Not sure what this guys excuse is though


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJ2BHoqnfE

 

[HLaB]

Not sure what this guys excuse is though


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJ2BHoqnfE

He can normally drive under that bridge, they must of lowered it

 

[magnatom]

Has anyone seen this linked video.

 

[HLaB]

Has anyone seen this linked video.

One very, very, very....... lucky man!

 

[MacB]

I'm still feeling suspect about the original footage, maybe I'm too suspicious, but it does seem to be gliding too smoothly.

 

[Tynan]

Has anyone seen this linked video.

dear god, what exactly do they use for level crossings in Turkey, how did he get out of that alive

 

[BenM]

I'm still feeling suspect about the original footage, maybe I'm too suspicious, but it does seem to be gliding too smoothly.

More detail on the BBC

 

[CopperBrompton]

It's genuine, but it now seems clear the driver was perfectly well aware the car was there - it's being pursued now as a road-rage incident.