A close shave on the A9

[FourWheelDrift]

This is the junction he was turning out of - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.708742,-4.181958...

[PorkInsider]

Looks like one of this company's trucks:

http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8318/7972882790_5b3...

[RobbieM-Evo]

Trucker looking right for a quick join to the road, could not see camera car due to white van man. Bloody dangerous driving IMO.

[duckwhistle]

Freeze the frame at 0.32, is that a laptop running on the lorry dash ? This scumbag needs prosecuted and fired pronto.

[cirian75]

A Biker would, not could have been killed there.

[TooMany2cvs]

cirian75 said:

A Biker would, not could have been killed there.

Don't be so melodramatic. A bike would have had a LOT more space to play with. Anybody on a big bike would just have given it a quick squirt and been in front of the wagon.

[Stenn]

This is the reason I now have a dash cam. Without one, that idiot would completely get away with nearly killing someone.

[matchmaker]

By the way, it wasn't my footage!

[oldaudi]

This is on the DailyFail website now

[andym1603]

PorkInsider said:

Looks like one of this company's trucks:

http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8318/7972882790_5b3...

You are right, it was one of this firms trucks.

[Baryonyx]

What useless idiot

[Antracer]

Motorrad said:

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: ...

I hope they throw the book at him as that could have been fatal.

lol "fatal" how?

[fttm]

Antracer said:

lol "fatal" how?

Quite fking easily .

[pingu393]

Do any of these look familiar ?

Google Images

[R1gtr]

I know that junction well, just along the road, quite a few fatalities around there and a few hundred metres down the road the truck came from myself and a mate almost got taken out by a lorry pulling out whilst we were on our bikes.
That is no way a junction you should be thinking about pulling out from without stopping, the prick needs his licence taken from him.

[vrsmxtb]

Can't believe he didn't notice he'd put a motorist on the verge in his mirrors and stop and apologise/check all was ok. At the very, very least a flash of hazards to acknowledge a mistake. You did well to avoid that, although there are obviously some clairvoyant driving gods on here.

Wildcard, but could the lorry have been stolen?

[MissChief]

Antracer said:

Motorrad said:

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: ...

I hope they throw the book at him as that could have been fatal.

lol "fatal" how?

If the driver in the camera car didn't have the nous to move onto the verge rather than just plowing into the 38 Tonne slow moving solid object?

[Antracer]

fttm said:

Quite fking easily .

I'm all ears. People do like to over exaggerate & forget how safe modern cars are.

He could plow into the lorry at 50 & his seat belt & airbag would save him.

Edited by Antracer on Tuesday 24th February 18:45

[Terzo123]

Antracer said:

I'm all ears. People do like to over exaggerate & forget how safe modern cars are.

He could plow into the lorry at 50 & his seat belt & airbag would save him.

Edited by Antracer on Tuesday 24th February 18:45

This was 48 MPH, double fatality

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-cent...

[R1gtr]

Antracer said:

I'm all ears. People do like to over exaggerate & forget how safe modern cars are.

The thing is that is well known Junction for fatalities and the lorry would have been dropping off wood at the wood pellet processing factory just down the road, the driver would know damn well that he should be stopping before pulling out, in fact the road has a change in elevation so no excuse for not stopping, very dangerous.