Mr Pig
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- Location
- North Lanarkshire
I've had lots of close passes but this one today is right up there with the best of them.
Took my thirteen-year-old son a run around the back roads, about nine miles, and going along one of the roads was passed by an artic. Normally I keep behind him so that I can watch his back and give him instructions but it's a very quiet road this one so I'd rolled off about twenty feet in front of him.
It's not a very wide road so when I saw the truck coming up I hugged the verge. I nearly jumped out of my skin when it passed it was so close, and to make it worse he made the typical 'long vehicle' mistake of cutting back in too early so his trailer swung in towards me! If I hadn't went right to the edge of the tarmac I would've been hit.
After he passed I shook my fist at him, in the absence of anything else I could do :0( Idiot.
Took my thirteen-year-old son a run around the back roads, about nine miles, and going along one of the roads was passed by an artic. Normally I keep behind him so that I can watch his back and give him instructions but it's a very quiet road this one so I'd rolled off about twenty feet in front of him.
It's not a very wide road so when I saw the truck coming up I hugged the verge. I nearly jumped out of my skin when it passed it was so close, and to make it worse he made the typical 'long vehicle' mistake of cutting back in too early so his trailer swung in towards me! If I hadn't went right to the edge of the tarmac I would've been hit.
After he passed I shook my fist at him, in the absence of anything else I could do :0( Idiot.