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GeordieBoy

Fri Mar 19 2010, 02:50PM

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This video clip has featured on most of the news channels here and the police are apparently looking into the incident:

Am I the only person that thinks there is something fishy about this footage? Shouldn't there be clouds of tyre smoke coming from a car being pushed sideways along a motorway at 60mph (96km/h)? Or the tyres would eventually burst giving rise to loads of sparks from the rims?

I also can't imagine how the lorry driver failed to notice the initial impact and drag that followed for the time that he is supposed to have carried on along his journey!

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uzzors2k

Fri Mar 19 2010, 03:45PM

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It doesn't look very real to me, the car is just gliding along in front of the truck, and he's speeding along as though there's no resistance from it. Anyway, wouldn't people honk their horn in an attempt to get the driver's attention?

Nicko

Fri Mar 19 2010, 06:05PM

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Uzzors wrote ...

It doesn't look very real to me, the car is just gliding along in front of the truck, and he's speeding along as though there's no resistance from it. Anyway, wouldn't people honk their horn in an attempt to get the driver's attention?

Oh, it was real all right - the lorry driver is under investigation - the woman walked away from it amazingly. See:

Conundrum

Fri Mar 19 2010, 06:17PM

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yee-OUCH!!!!

thats got to be mucho $$$ on the insurance.

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Nik

Fri Mar 19 2010, 10:33PM

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Uzzors, you forget that the load that truck is pulling weights probably more then 10x the weight of the car and that it takes all 18 wheels working together to slow it down. I doubt the truck felt a difference, that said he should have noticed the impact by sight rather then by feel.

Nicko

Sat Mar 20 2010, 06:13AM

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GeordieBoy wrote ...

Am I the only person that thinks there is something fishy about this footage? Shouldn't there be clouds of tyre smoke coming from a car being pushed sideways along a motorway at 60mph (96km/h)? Or the tyres would eventually burst giving rise to loads of sparks from the rims?

I looks like the tyres had already gone by the time this video was taken - also, being Yorkshire, it was raining (note the windscreen wipers are on), hence no sparks!

More on this - Vet relives accident

Proud Mary

Mon Mar 22 2010, 03:22PM

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Motorist shunted at 60mph by lorry relives ordeal

A motorist who was shunted sideways and pushed along a motorway at 60mph when her car was hit by a lorry, has told how she thought she was going to die.

Rona Williams' car was trapped under the bumper of the tanker and pushed along the A1(M) near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, until the driver saw her.

Footage of the incident was posted on YouTube.

Mrs Williams, 31, of York, told the Daily Mail she called 999 and told an operator: "I'm going to die".

The vet, who works at a practice in Garforth, was not injured in the incident.

She said she feared the Arclid Transport HGV would ram her into the crash barrier and kill her so she tried calling for help on her mobile phone.

Police investigation

Mrs Williams told the newspaper: "I just screamed at the operator 'I'm going to die, I'm going to die - can you do something?'

"She tried to calm me down but there wasn't really anything she could do at the end of the phone."

Mrs Williams' Renault Clio was clipped by the lorry and twisted sideways, trapping it under the front bumper.

In a bid to release her vehicle, she said she pulled on the handbrake and flashed her hazard lights to try to catch the driver's attention, as well as that of other road users, but she said it took the lorry driver nearly a minute to notice her.

When he did he was "all over the place", Mrs Williams said, and finally managed to bring both vehicles to a stop on the hard shoulder.

Arclid Transport and West Yorkshire Police, which attended the scene of the crash on 13 January, are investigating.

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Mon Mar 22 2010, 03:26PM

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