Witnessed the worst driving (HGV) I've ever seen!

[tigwig]

Yesterday while waiting at traffic lights, a HGV who was turning left at the junction adjacent to me came steaming round the corner and at first I couldnt work out what had happened. I saw him go round the corner and though he is going too fast , then the whole lorry wobbled as it hit the kerb and looked like it was going to tip over but it didnt thankfully, it then carried on down the road. Then I could see that the traffic light itself had been hit and completely knocked over as it was on the path in bits and a passerby who fortunately hadnt been there a few seconds earlier was left to move it out of the way as it was blocking the road. Several people like me must have witnessed it but it seems the HGV driver has just got away with it. I didnt have chance to get a number plate or anything so it was pointless reporting it. I was just shocked at what I saw.

[redcrx]

it wasnt pointless to report it just because you didnt have the numberplate. You were still a witness.

[ubasses]

Did you notice the Company name, they will know which driver was on that road at around that time. police can trace driver from that info.

[ummmm]

Worse things than that happen...

A car ploughed straight across a junction...hit two cars and ended up in someones front window...that was at the bottom of my street a few weeks back.

[TWR]

This might answer your Queston Tig, was the driver a young one?

[Toureman]

Tig never asked a question TWR .

He just wanted to tell people as he got frightened.

[237SJ]

The worst driving I ever saw was a huge lorry coming on the last junction before the Dartford Tunnel (M25) pushing a little white van along, sideways. The van was frantically tooting his horn and the lorry driver simply didn`t know he was there so he carried on. That area is frantically busy and you can`t stop. I often wondered what happened to the van when his tyres eventually wore out as they`re designed to go forwards, not sideways.

[tigwig]

I didnt notice any writing on the lorry at all, nothing to identify it. I presumed it was a foreign driver, wasnt even looking at it until it wobbled and by then it was too late. All I could say is it was blue! And was being followed by a Sainsburys lorry lol who will have also witnessed it.

[ABerrant]

237SJ - Reminiscent of this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8574600.stm

[TWR]

That clip ABerrant was a friend of mine driving the HGV, many of my mates all EX HGVs have said, there is no-way the driver of the HGV could NOT have felt that car under his front, I have driven with a tyre deflated " not flat" & felt it, we said that the driver had come in off the slip road on the HGV's blind side but even so, the driver should have felt the car to his front. what I meant by that statement Toureman, you get the so-called one arm out of the window in-experienced glory boys driving like that.

[237SJ]

ABerrant, I`ve just seen your reply. Yes, it was exactly like that but a bit slower. I suppose the lorry driver would have realised that he had a van under his nose when he got to the Dartford toll booth.