This is symptomatic of the way the law is applied in this country. The people who dispense it should be in the dock.

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Garry your comment, “Great!!!! what sort of message does that send out??? lets all drive like muppets and not worry about the consequences!!”

The message that is coming out in these comments is that people are commenting on things they don’t have a clue about, I would also stake my life on the fact that not one person commenting has driven anything bigger than a family saloon.

In the past I have driven a Diamond T tank transporter, I have also driven an articulated lorry with a 40foot trailer on the back.

The first 4 wheel vehicle I drove was a 3 ton lorry so I think I can safely say I have some idea of what happened to that driver.

Now some facts!!

That drivers head would have been about 8 or 9 foot up from ground level, he would have been sat back from the windscreen about 4 or 5 feet, the lorry would have probably have been powered by a 12 or 13 litre engine, to carry the loads they do it would probably have been churning out 280 hp.

Its quiet possible for something that powerful to be pushing a tiny car like a Cleo, weighing one and a half ton, along in front of it and not know it was there.

If you listen to the video carefully you will hear a comment that the driver of the Cleo overtook the lorry on its nearside, it can only be assumed that after overtaking the lorry on its nearside, it then must have moved over into the path of the lorry, had it stopped in the inside lane then there was no way the lorry could have come into contact with it.

The Cleo driver should have overtaken the lorry on the drivers side for safety, although it’s perfectly legal to overtake a vehicle on the inside as long as it’s not done recklessly.

Jim of Bearwood.

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