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king hell Stussy said:
Not my car, but I was involved in a crash with it last night!
I was in an artic truck, the car was behind me.
Very heavy rain, lots of spray and double white lines on a long bend going up hill. A truck is coming in the other direction, so I’m concentrating on him as usual so we don’t clip each other’s mirrors.
Unbeknown to me the car decided to over take me!
As our cabs became level with each over the car is now half way up the side of me, the spray is that bad I didn’t see it’s lights and am concentrating hard on seeing where I’m going, the truck and his lights in the rain. Suddenly a huge bang which lurched me sideways onto the verge, I try to correct it before it’s game over into the ditch, field, or worse on my side, as I’m a half loaded milk tanker which have no baffles.
I manage to keep it on the road with the trailer fishtailing behind me.
I stop not knowing what the hell has happened, obviously a crash, but no damage to my unit, just everything smashed under the trailer.
Every surface of my trailer has smashed glass on, even stuck to the wheel rim on the rear trailer wheel!
It turned out the car hit the other truck head on, ripped its front wheel off, bounced off under my trailer, ripped one of my trailer tyres off, smashed my air tanks and everything down the side of the trailer, the bounced back under the other trailer. It ripped two of the three trailer axles off too!
By what I can only imagine is a miracle, two girls walked out of it with no injuries!!
It was a Renault. There wasn’t one single thing I could see on the car that wasn’t damaged, literally everything.
The engine was separate, doors peeled back, half a door card here, engine mount there, wiper stalks on the verge, very window gone.
Just a complete miracle.
The driver admitted trying to over take me. Unbelievable.
I was in an artic truck, the car was behind me.
Very heavy rain, lots of spray and double white lines on a long bend going up hill. A truck is coming in the other direction, so I’m concentrating on him as usual so we don’t clip each other’s mirrors.
Unbeknown to me the car decided to over take me!
As our cabs became level with each over the car is now half way up the side of me, the spray is that bad I didn’t see it’s lights and am concentrating hard on seeing where I’m going, the truck and his lights in the rain. Suddenly a huge bang which lurched me sideways onto the verge, I try to correct it before it’s game over into the ditch, field, or worse on my side, as I’m a half loaded milk tanker which have no baffles.
I manage to keep it on the road with the trailer fishtailing behind me.
I stop not knowing what the hell has happened, obviously a crash, but no damage to my unit, just everything smashed under the trailer.
Every surface of my trailer has smashed glass on, even stuck to the wheel rim on the rear trailer wheel!
It turned out the car hit the other truck head on, ripped its front wheel off, bounced off under my trailer, ripped one of my trailer tyres off, smashed my air tanks and everything down the side of the trailer, the bounced back under the other trailer. It ripped two of the three trailer axles off too!
By what I can only imagine is a miracle, two girls walked out of it with no injuries!!
It was a Renault. There wasn’t one single thing I could see on the car that wasn’t damaged, literally everything.
The engine was separate, doors peeled back, half a door card here, engine mount there, wiper stalks on the verge, very window gone.
Just a complete miracle.
The driver admitted trying to over take me. Unbelievable.
Was waiting for it to be a fatal... for them to survive let alone walk away would be miraculous!
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