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Talk about getting taken for a ride......

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/35998317#35998317

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATocBBd7ARs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDzAppCblTU

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/8574609.stm

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Dramatic footage has emerged of a lorry apparently pushing a car sideways along a motorway in Yorkshire.

The footage, which was posted on YouTube, shows the truck travelling along the A1(M) near Wetherby with the Clio trapped in front.

The scene was filmed on a mobile phone by another motorist.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed it had attended the scene. The lorry owner, Cheshire-based Arclid Transport, said it was investigating the incident.

At one point in the footage someone can be heard shouting: "He hasn't seen it."

A spokesman from Arclid Transport said: "There was an incident between a car and one of our vehicles in January.
   
In light of the new evidence that has come to light we are reinvestigating the collision
West Yorkshire Police spokesman

"Since seeing the footage from YouTube we are investigating."

He added that he believed the female driver of the Clio had not been injured in the incident.

The company said the lorry driver was sent home on Wednesday, when the video emerged on the internet.

He added that the accident happened on 13 January and police had investigated, but to date no action had been taken against the lorry driver.

West Yorkshire Police said officers attended the scene after receiving reports of a collision.

A spokesman said: "At the time of our attendance there were no injuries and both vehicles were on the hard shoulder of the motorway.

"As a result, at the time, the incident was treated as a damage only collision.

"However, in light of the new evidence that has come to light we are reinvestigating the collision and the matter has today been passed to our major collision inquiry team and inquiries are ongoing."


How the hell does a truck driver misshiznitting -- and then pushing -- a car?
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Reply #1
There was an 18-wheeler several years in Nashville that ran over the front end of a VW beetle and though he'd had a blow-out ;-)  Smashed the front-end of that bug flatter than a pancake (doofus rolled out into a crossing lane of traffic from a side street from some strange reason and got half his car flattened for his trouble ;-(
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Reply #2
My dad pushed a car through a set of lights in Chicago a few years. The gal was sitting at a red, with my dad behind her, apparently she was distracted, light went green, she rolled back into his bumper...he didn't see her, shoved her through the light and about 15-20 feet or so...


He said when smoke (from her tires, brakes locked) came up over the hood, he stopped and she pulled over to the curb. He about shiznit himself, he thought she'd already driven away lol.

Didn't hurt her car at all, except for grinding off a bit of tread, probably.

A set of econopoopster brakes won't hold back 1,200 feet-pounds of torque, lol

He got a coupla tickets for it, but nothing serious. He had to go to court over it, I guess she ended up with a ticket as well.
He said the cop that investigated it was writing her ticket, when this gal laid down on the ground and said her neck hurt.

Anyway....it don't pay to eff around with semi truck...a fully loaded rig will weigh 80,000 pounds. A little more than most cars will hold up, lmao
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Reply #3
I saw that video a few days back, before any details had come out about what we were seeing. Crazy. Thanks for posting.

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Reply #4
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;315561
My dad pushed a car through a set of lights in Chicago a few years. The gal was sitting at a red, with my dad behind her, apparently she was distracted, light went green, she rolled back into his bumper...he didn't see her, shoved her through the light and about 15-20 feet or so...


He said when smoke (from her tires, brakes locked) came up over the hood, he stopped and she pulled over to the curb. He about shiznit himself, he thought she'd already driven away lol.

Didn't hurt her car at all, except for grinding off a bit of tread, probably.

A set of econopoopster brakes won't hold back 1,200 feet-pounds of torque, lol

He got a coupla tickets for it, but nothing serious. He had to go to court over it, I guess she ended up with a ticket as well.
He said the cop that investigated it was writing her ticket, when this gal laid down on the ground and said her neck hurt.

Anyway....it don't pay to eff around with semi truck...a fully loaded rig will weigh 80,000 pounds. A little more than most cars will hold up, lmao

My dad did a similar thing once, at a light a small pickup truck thought it was a good idea to change lanes and moved right into my dad's blind spot. Heh, the guy learned real quick about the No-Zones.
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Reply #5
Cars get pushed all the time and the driver has no idea. My Dad has watched other drivers push a line of cars until they noticed 3-4 cars up were hitting each other. My uncle almost killed a few teenage girls because they cut him off entering the highway.

I wonder what really happened. Id bet she clipped his truck and caused this. That would explain why he never saw her.
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Reply #6
thats what you get for driving a car the size of a small rodent!  Thats one of the reasons all my rides are eather big foxes or bigger buicks!  well exept for the fairmont and the bike, but I asume that if I ever get hit by a big rig in one of those I'll be pushing daisys!

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Reply #7
I'm amazed at how many people are siding with the truck driver on this. And for choosing to drive a compact? It's the UK. If the lorry driver isn't watching out for compacts, he shouldn't be driving. If I decide I want to drive something small and economical, I shouldn't have to worry about other people not seeing me. Seriously, guys, do you tell your friends who drive bikes that same thing? It was only a few days ago that a dump truck ploughed over a string of bikers down south. Was that the bikers' fault?

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Reply #8
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If I decide I want to drive something small and economical, I shouldn't have to worry about other people not seeing me.

Exactly.  This isn't maritime navigation where the larger vessel ALWAYS has the RoW. 
Accidents happen, but pushing someone for what has been determined to be for OVER 1 MINUTE is flat out insane.  How do you not feel the impact if both vehicles are moving anyway?  They were upon normal roadways.  Even at speeds of 5 KPH I would think one would hear/feel something that wasn't normal.

People miss stuff, sure, but this is too extreme to excuse/write off.
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Reply #9
Quote from: oldraven;316056
If I decide I want to drive something small and economical, I shouldn't have to worry about other people not seeing me. Seriously, guys, do you tell your friends who drive bikes that same thing?


 I am in no ,means defending the truck driver  Just a comment about this statement ...


 Back about 20 years ago I took a motorcycle riding course before I got my bike license , and the first thing the instructor told us and stressed it throughout the course was  "Always assume the other drivers don't see you,  even if the guy smiles and waves at you and calls you by name " 
 I thought it was a little weird to tell us that but after riding a bike for a few years I came to realize that is a pretty good thing to have in the back of your mind .
 So IMHO  you should worry that other people don't see you... at least on a bike anyway :D
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Reply #10
All Im saying is think about how possible it is for her to have merged right into his truck, causing this. Think about all the jackasses that cut you off everyday.

Truckers are easy targets now days.  Some are idiots but most need to keep their job and one little slip can mean no more paychecks, driver error or not.
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Reply #11
For sure, accidents happen, but trying to imply that driving a little car might be why this happened is a scary thought. The driver messed up, and that's just all there is to it. He should never be allowed to drive anything larger than an ice-cream truck again. I know if I designed a home that was so flawed by design that it collapsed within a year (if that was even possible since all new builds need an Engineer's stamp anyway), I would be sued for every stitch of clothing I own and wouldn't even get a job designing a dog house for the rest of my life. And I wouldn't for a moment think I was being unfairly put upon. He got a license to insure this sort of thing never happened. It did. He should no longer have that heavy hauler license.

People need to take responsibility for messing up their job. In particular when they put someone's life in danger.

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Reply #12
I guess i see it different since Ive been on the other side too many times.


She was given a license also, and depending on what really happened, he shouldnt pay for her mistake/ lack of cation.
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Reply #13
Even if it WERE her mistake, I question whether or not he was impaired. 

Pushing a car for that long and then apparently acting as if it were no big deal afterward?
Again; approximately one minute at speeds estimated somewhere between 55 to 70 MPH according to various sources.........

That's a mile!!!
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Reply #14
That truck hauls tons and tons, whats pushing one more?
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