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gherkins said:
What seems clear is that the lorry must have seen the OP and the situation of the road ahead and appears to have made an idiotic and inconsiderate choice in accelerating hard to block the OP. To those that think the lorry was merely getting up to speed on the slip road, if he'd continued in that way, he would have ended up in the back of the Focus.
An idiot armed with 40t of moving metal; all the more reason to plan further ahead; as I & others have already said, the situation was predictable from about 10 seconds into the video.Edited by gherkins on Thursday 3rd April 08:24
I could be cruel and suggest FOAD, but actually you've raised the point I was getting at. If the lorry driver was concentrating on the unfolding events up front and didn't happen to look in the right place at the time the OP's car would have been visible in the cab, then I imagine his shock at a car suddenly inserting itself into his safe area.
No excuses for flashing though - that's just a lack of appreciation all round on the problem that both drivers action was causing to the other.
No excuses for flashing though - that's just a lack of appreciation all round on the problem that both drivers action was causing to the other.
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