When you get on a truck drivers last nerve

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Wow, that was wild. Here are the details that I dug up. :eek:

  • The incident took place during the morning of 13 January 2010, on the southbound A1 near Wetherby in Yorkshire.
  • The accident involved a blue Renault Clio driven by a woman in her early 30s and a white and purple Arclid Transport truck manned by a driver with “years of experience.”
  • The truck was traveling at about 60 mph and pushed the Renault in front of it for nearly half a mile.
  • The truck driver was unaware of the presence of the Renault in front of his vehicle because he neither felt the weight of the smaller automobile nor could hear its driver honking her horn because of high winds.
  • The truck driver eventually safely pulled over to the shoulder and stopped, with the Renault motorist emerging shaken but uninjured.
West Yorkshire Police investigated the incident but took no further action against the driver of the truck following advice from the Crown Prosecution Service. In May 2010, the North West traffic commissioner ruled the driver could keep his license, praising the man’s coolness and “clear head” on discovering the Clio attached to his lorry.
 

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Imagine the panic in the woman's head as she's getting pushed sideways, fearing that she'll get flipped and crushed. The fact that it didn't happen and the driver was okay is a miracle. And yeah, all the time the driver never knew what was just below the hood.
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you know, i can imagine how the driver of the truck cant see the car in front of it but what i cant figure out is how it got there without being noticedlol


I had something like this happen with my Jeep and a little Honda. I stopped in a parking lot at the mall to let my wife out. I was just going to wait for her in the Jeep. This little Honda Civic go up behind me while I was using my phone and I didn't know he was there. Someone asked me to backup so they could pull out of a spot. I looked out the back window and checked the mirrors, didn't see anything and started to back up.

I heard someone blowing a horn like crazy, so I stopped. I looked everywhere and still saw nothing. So, I started backing up again and again, I heard a horn blowing. I stopped, got out of the Jeep, and there was a little Civic half under my Jeep. I had pushed the car about 40 feet and had zero clue it was even there. Needless to say, the people in the Honda were not happy.

I can understand not knowing you had impact... cuz I had no idea.
 

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