Omg - Seen This From London

[DTCwordfan]

and I believe it's on the Beeb news in a few minutes - what the hell did the truck driver think he was doing?

Apparently Elly Goulding was involved in getting him to stop.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/london/video-2071438/Video-Shock-Royal-Mail-lorry-driver-pushes-car-road-London.html

[emmie]

i watched it any number of times and wonder how the idiot didn't notice the car... could have ended so badly

[bookbinder]

It's quite easy not to see something, or someone, that is up close to the front of such a large truck. I am inclined to believe the truck driver when he said that he didn't see the car being pushed along the road by the truck. The question is: did the car driver make a mistake that put him in such a dangerous position?

[237SJ]

Was that the car being pushed by the lorry? I saw that happen on the M25 once over by the Dartford bridge.

[emmie]

according to the news just now, the lorry drove for more than a mile all the while not noticing the car

[DTCwordfan]

I know - really quite frightening and on the A40 in W.London too - amazed nobody has been hurt.

[emmie]

me too.

[Apc2604]

Agree with bookbinder.

[DTCwordfan]

you aren't close to there are you, emmie - could have been veritable carnage..imagine if it had been under the Hangar Lane Gyratory.....

[237SJ]

When I saw it happen it was because I heard the frantic beeping of the horn by the small van driver who was being pushed by the lorry. I was on the approach to the Dartford tunnel (south side) and the lorry with van was approaching on the slip road. The lorry driver obviously didn't see a thing. Probably found out at the toll booth as I don't think they are wide enough for vans to go through sideways )

[emmie]

no i live more centrally near KX

[DTCwordfan]

an old colleague of mine in the States lost his wife and son in an accident along i10 in Louisiana, one of those 'double-trucks' coming back into the near lane and didn't even realise or feel he was there, the car dragged for a mile and a half before the truck driver was flagged down to stop.....his daughter was also brain-damaged but has made a remarkable recovery but not complete.....

[emmie]

terrible ^^

[jno]

I imagine he couldn't see the car once he'd made contact, it's quite low. But how he missed him before he made contact, I couldn't say.

[Old_Geezer]

It's a wonder they don't hear the horn continually being blown.

[Mamyalynne]

Very very lucky escape, one would need to see the very start of the incident to comment much more.

[roopower]

Word is the car was undertaking and in the lorries blind spot

[Patsy33]

Very scary. So glad driver wasn't physically hurt.

[ABerrant]

2014 driver noticed...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11179130/Lorry-shunts-trapped-car-along-motorway-at-50mph-dashboard-footage.html

2010 driver didn't...