http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2896827/Lorry-driver-gives-car-a-push-at-60mph.html

A driver attempted to high jack a fuel tanker in Yorkshire due to fuel prices going up, but he had the wrong glasses on

check the vid half way down

Surely the driver must have known he was pushing a car!

Lorry driver maybe reading / mobile? Can't think how he wouldn't have noticed the car as it got near him then noticed the car appeared to vanish. Wagon drivers are usually fairly good at noting what's around them. I'm astonished the tyres hadn't appeared to have popped. Must have been rather alarming for the driver! He/she'd be right up to the grille of the lorry with the engine roaring about 12" away!

Edited 18 March, 201016 yr by yashicamat

Thats effin crazy

no freaking way

Saw that on the news at lunch. Looked absolutely mental, with the lorry making no apparent effort to stop

Jaysus that would have been a brown trouser moment for all concerned!!

K

I dooon't believe it!

The tanker driver wants taking off the road, and, as an LGV 1 driver myself, who up until recently was driving tankers I can only assume something had happened between the car driver and the tanker driver previous to this.

As a driver, you cannot fail to see a car caught in that position across the unit, and to continue driving with the car across the front of the unit is insane, especially when you think that the car could have come loose and spun across the carriageway, and caused a major accident.

He should be banned for life.

Happened back in January apparently. The firm's investigating and they know who the driver was apparently. He's strangely no longer at work since this popped up on YouTube!

Police are investigating too.

I get the feeling the car driver p*ssed the lorry driver off and so they decided they would get their own back.

There is no way you could miss that.

The driver ought to be banned from driving anything at all for life and also given a long spell in prison as they could easily have killed many people.

This can't be real

Edited 18 March, 201016 yr by Captain Sisko

Just watched this myself looks real to me! How the hell did the driver not notice. :no:

Yep, tis real. And it's also a repost

drat I did a repost!!!

Yeah just seen this. Can this be deleted or merged with the other.

Thanks

bet that was scary :'(

Spoof. Not real. Defies the laws of physics. This is either an "Airbrushed Dave" video or the car is supported by an unseen forklift on the front of the unit ?

Did my hearing deceive me or did the sound track include the utterances of what sounded like some Scouser scallys ?

If it is real, the chances of the car coming to rest, even after a carefully judged rear-end dink, so that the side-on pivot of movement of the car lines-up with the centre-line of the truck ensuring that the car does not simply spin-off into the other carriageways is so remote on a metalled (And wet) roadsurafce as to be highly improbable. Only place I can recall seeing that happens is on the demolition derby tracks, where the surface is obviously rougher, rutted and offers more frictional resistance to a spinning vehicle.

Having been t-boned in the drivers side myself when crossing in-front of an artic, the first thing that happens, is that the drivers side wheels lift off the road. This happens even at low speed due to the huge difference in mass of the vehicles and the fact that the cars wheels cannot dissipate the energy delivered by the collision at the rate demanded by the foward progress of the artic - when going sideways, the frictional resistance offered by tyres will go up, causing the bottom edge of the tyres furthest away from the impact (in this case the nearside) to turn under.. After that the car continues to tilt over to the nearside until it either turns on its side or the artic stops. Luckily for me, the artic stopped when the car was at 45 degrees and had to back-off to let me out.

That's what happens when the vehicles are crossing at 90 degress to each other. Can't see that possibility ever arising on a motorway !

Nick

Edited 18 March, 201016 yr by Clunkclick

The tanker driver wants taking off the road, and, as an LGV 1 driver myself, who up until recently was driving tankers I can only assume something had happened between the car driver and the tanker driver previous to this.

As a driver, you cannot fail to see a car caught in that position across the unit, and to continue driving with the car across the front of the unit is insane, especially when you think that the car could have come loose and spun across the carriageway, and caused a major accident.

He should be banned for life.

allways makes me laugh when folk comment without knowing the full facts of the case, i do and there is no action to be taken against the driver of the wagon as all the witnesses say the same thing, the car entered the motorway in the blindspot,and as any real driver knows daf n/s blindspots are huge, and clipped the ns step turning the car side ways, as a maximum wieght 480bhp tractor he would notice no loss in performance he did exactly as i would have done, he felt somthing so checked his mirrors then his dash and all was well, he assumed he had hit a pothole or some debris and carried on, unfortunstly the driver of this truck is a midget and daf dashes stick up a hell of a lot so his frontal blindspot is increased hugely, i had exactly the same thimg happen to me in a daf in rotherham a few years ago and it was only because i saw the front edge of the bonnet in the spin that i knew i had hit the car and i'm over 6ft, car drivers fault all day long, and yes it is real, i know who the driver is too

Edited 18 March, 201016 yr by oilburninnut

I know when I did my rigid trianing the instructor said aaht once in France this happened to him although not on the motorway I hasten to add.

Car cut up the inside as he made a turn and got lodged on the front. Was made aware of it by other motorsist pointing at his truck.

Bear in mind a car in only 6-7' wide and the windcreens on the lorries can be 7' plus off the ground, so really quite easy not to see the imeediate front of the vehicle unless you lan forward to look.

allways makes me laugh when folk comment without knowing the full facts of the case, i do and there is no action to be taken against the driver of the wagon as all the witnesses say the same thing, the car entered the motorway in the blindspot,and as any real driver knows daf n/s blindspots are huge, and clipped the ns step turning the car side ways, as a maximum wieght 480bhp tractor he would notice no loss in performance he did exactly as i would have done, he felt somthing so checked his mirrors then his dash and all was well, he assumed he had hit a pothole or some debris and carried on, unfortunstly the driver of this truck is a midget and daf dashes stick up a hell of a lot so his frontal blindspot is increased hugely, i had exactly the same thimg happen to me in a daf in rotherham a few years ago and it was only because i saw the front edge of the bonnet in the spin that i knew i had hit the car and i'm over 6ft, car drivers fault all day long, and yes it is real, i know who the driver is too

Gary,

Sorry, I cannot agree with your comments and back it with over thirty six years experience of HGV class one (1) now LGV's having passed my HGV back in 1974, and I dont care if the driver is a dwarf, there is no way you cannot see a car wedged acrooss the front of the unit. .......................................................Unless you choose not to see it!!!!!!!

Edited 19 March, 201016 yr by TheMethodFeeder

allways makes me laugh when folk comment without knowing the full facts of the case, i do and there is no action to be taken against the driver of the wagon as all the witnesses say the same thing, the car entered the motorway in the blindspot,and as any real driver knows daf n/s blindspots are huge, and clipped the ns step turning the car side ways, as a maximum wieght 480bhp tractor he would notice no loss in performance he did exactly as i would have done, he felt somthing so checked his mirrors then his dash and all was well, he assumed he had hit a pothole or some debris and carried on, unfortunstly the driver of this truck is a midget and daf dashes stick up a hell of a lot so his frontal blindspot is increased hugely, i had exactly the same thimg happen to me in a daf in rotherham a few years ago and it was only because i saw the front edge of the bonnet in the spin that i knew i had hit the car and i'm over 6ft, car drivers fault all day long, and yes it is real, i know who the driver is too

You live and learn.

How do you overcome a blind spot like that ?

Though I recall that some 3 and 7 tonners of years gone by had glass observation ports positioned at driver calf height in the front cab quarter positions.

Nick

Edited 19 March, 201016 yr by Clunkclick

Gary,

Sorry, I cannot agree with your comments and back it with over thirty six years experience of HGV class one (1) now LGV's having passed my HGV back in 1974, and I dont care if the driver is a dwarf, there is no way you cannot see a car wedged acrooss the front of the unit. .......................................................Unless you choose not to see it!!!!!!!

well i didn't see the one i collected in rotherham,just the front as it span after hitting my n/s step!!!!! its happened to me so i know what can and can't be seen i speak from personal epierience!!!!

You live and learn.

How do you overcome a blind spot like that ?

Though I recall that some 3 and 7 tonners of years gone by had glass observation ports positioned at driver calf height in the front cab quarter positions.

Nick

i believe if the general public knew how much a driver can't see,artics would be banned from the road,or manufacturers forced to put proximity sensors on them like on the parking sensor equiped cars do,you can't have bigger mirrors as they pose visibility problems at junctions,you can allready lose a car in one if your not carefull,those quarter lights are ok on daycab type vehicles but i certaily wouldn't want to park some of the places drivers are expected to park these days and sleep in the wagon with the easy access to thieves etc

me and our lass were in a traffic jam the other week and watched a daf driver nudge the 206 cc in front of him 7 or 8 times before he realised she was there. i have been driving class 2 for several years now and have noticed that the blind spots are different in all lorrys but thought artics were fitted with a front blindspot mirrror above the windscreen angled down the front of the cab, to make sure you can see anything in front or is that just newer cabs??