That is the stunning second a lorry pushed a automobile sideways not less than 65feet alongside the M1 after it grew to become trapped on its entrance bumper.
Footage recorded on Tuesday morning exhibits a Greg’s Couriers HGV driving down the busy motorway close to Luton with a white Volkswagen VW connected to its bonnet.
A person recording the video could be seen desperately waving on the lorry driver repeatedly yelling at him: ‘F*****g cease!’
However the driver, aged 50, initially appears unaware of the unfolding incident till he pulls up subsequent to the person recording.
Footage recorded on Tuesday morning exhibits a Greg’s Courier HGV driving down the busy motorway close to Luton with a white Volkswagen VW connected to its entrance
The HGV driver, aged 50, initially appears unaware of the unfolding incident close to Luton on the M1
The person shouts: ‘Cease you f*****g fool!’, as he factors in the direction of the entrance of his truck.
The HGV driver is then seen pulling over into the exhausting shoulder.
Transport Supervisor for Greg’s Couriers, Greg Krysztofowiciz, 42, advised Mail On-line: ‘I used to be shocked after I noticed the video, however so many individuals are blaming my driver when it was not his fault.
‘The driving force of the Volkswagen pulled in too near the lorry when he tried to overhaul him, my driver didn’t see him, and he swears to God he didn’t really feel the automobile.’
Mr Krysztofowiciz mentioned his driver had the radio on and solely realised one thing was unsuitable when folks began waving at him and that he instantly pulled over.
He mentioned the driving force of the Volkswagen was a younger man aged 24 or 25.
He added: ‘Police got here and carried out drug and alcohol checks on my driver however he was cleared and allowed to proceed on his journey because the truck was not majorly broken.
Transport Supervisor for Greg’s Couriers, Greg Krysztofowiciz, 42, mentioned folks must be further cautious when overtaking lorries, as they’ll have a number of blind spots, together with straight in entrance
‘My driver is in fact not happy with what occurred and was shocked when he noticed the video too.
‘However he’s skilled and has been working for me for eight years, he in fact didn’t do it on goal.’
The lorry is able to carrying 26 tons however yesterday solely had a four-and-a-half ton load.
Mr Krysztofowiciz mentioned folks must be further cautious when overtaking lorries, as they’ll have a number of blind spots, together with straight in entrance.
‘They’re sitting so excessive that they can not see proper in entrance of the automobile,’ he defined.
Mail On-line has contacted Bedfordshire Police for remark.
It comes after Ellie Goulding got here to the rescue of a driver trapped in his automobile because it was being pushed alongside one in every of London’s busiest dual-carriageways by a Royal Mail truck in December 2019.
Second a Royal Mail truck was filmed as its driver unknowingly pushed alongside a black Volkswagen in December 2019
Singer Ellie Goulding (left, on the scene) shared the information on her Instagram account, saying the site visitors collision was the ‘craziest factor I’ve seen on the street’
Staggering footage confirmed the articulated truck pushing a Volkswagen GTi that was caught sideways on its entrance grill and bumper.
Within the dramatic incident, filmed on the westbound Western Ave stretch of the A40 in London, different automobiles may very well be heard honking their horns while driving alongside the supply truck in a bid to avoid wasting the driving force trapped inside the black automobile.
The Starry Eyed hitmaker was in a Vary Rover driving alongside the terrifying collision, and revealed how her chauffeur Man was making an attempt to get the trucker’s consideration.
Goulding branded the incident ‘the craziest factor I’ve ever seen on the street’, including: ‘Everybody was simply driving previous however my driver Man stopped’.
She additionally added that she was shocked how the very first thing many of the witnesses did was carry out their telephones to document the incident, after which slam the Royal Mail driver.
‘I am unable to imagine the primary intuition of the opposite drivers who received out was to immediately begin filming on their telephones and shout abuse on the poor shocked driver, not even checking the opposite driver was okay,’ she mentioned.