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Originally Posted by SD1too
The car driver wasn't the only one who didn't follow the rules of the road.
The HGV remained for half a minute in what became lane 2 when the motorway became four lanes. The motorway rules say that the HGV should have moved into lane 1 at the earliest opportunity (i.e. drive on the left unless overtaking). We can see that lane 1 ahead of the HGV was clear for this purpose throughout the video (except for the car alongside him of which the HGV was clearly unaware). The HGV contributed to the collision as well. I'd say it was not being driven with due care and attention.
I heard it said that successful police driving is on the basis that the other driver is going to do something stupid. If both the car and HGV in the video had followed this principle, the collision would not have occurred.
I'm not claiming to be perfect by the way. I admit that I make mistakes too, we all do, but the important thing is to learn from each situation which is what we're doing by examining and discussing this incident here. 
Simon |
Simon, I do not disagree with you but in the event of lorry v car who comes off worse? The car driver put is safety and those of his passengers if there were any in the hands of the lorry driver.
Youtube has many clips of lorries side swiping cars yet it still happens.
I was just trying to show why one should not drive along side a lorry.
If any of us were to have our pride and joys written off in such an incident or a passenger killed being "right" or the other driver being wrong is of little consolation, because upon reflection, most of us may come to the conclusion, we could have avoided the incident.
It would be an easy bit of defensive driving to hang back from the lorry.
I accept lorry driver should have seen the car.
macafee2