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Accident!!

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Posted by: knightrider45 Sunday 11th May 2008, 8:15am

Steve is a lorry driver based at Catterick. After he left my depot Friday night he was on his way back to his own depot travelling along the A1 just after Midnight Friday Night/Saturday Morning

A car had crashed into the middle crash barriers and had rebounded back out broadside across the carriageway.

The man, apparently, had got out of his car and walked across to the hard shoulder. Leaving his car on the unlit carriageway without lights.

Steve, driving his 44 tonne loaded lorry saw the car at the last minute and swerved to avoid it. At 50 mph, the sudden swerving overbalanced his loaded tank.

With the net result that both lorry and tank slid along the road, on their sides, for 100 paces. Cab was driver side down. The heat from the friction of the cab sliding along the road for so long at 50mph had started to weld the driver's door shut.

Steve missed smashing and scraping his head along the crash barrier by less than one inch as his cab roof caved in as it hit the road. But he has ended up in hospital, having an operation, as one of his cuts had gone through to the bone on his leg.

I cannot make any comment about the car at the moment because only that driver knows what really happened, and hopefully the Police over there will soon work it out. But what is known is that the car was the only vehicle on the road at the time of the crash, and the conditions were good, dry and with good visibility.

But what I will say is this: Steve is an ex squaddie of some 15 years standing, is an excellent, family orientated family, who works a minimum of 60 hours weekly to help keep his family's heads above water. He lives for, and because of, his family. And his life was nearly snubbed out as a result of this car being left in the middle of a dual carriageway.

The A1 ended up being closed off from half past midnight until eleven O'Clock Saturday morning, disrupting hundreds, if not thousands of people.

Oh, and did I say the car involved wasn't taxed?

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