Thursday, March 31, 2011

The terrifying moment lorry driver came face to face with car driving wrong way up dual carriageway

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It must have been when she rounded the bend on the slip road that it dawned on the driver of this little car that she was going in the wrong direction.
Thundering up the ramp straight towards her was a huge articulated lorry.
What happened next was captured in these startling images taken from the GPS camera system in the cab of a second lorry that was still on the main carriageway.
Scroll down to see the terrifying video
Nowhere to go: The Vauxhall Astro comes hurtling out of the exit - the wrong way - and clips the lorry, which causes it to jackknife across the road
Nowhere to go: The Vauxhall Astro comes hurtling out of the exit - the wrong way - and clips the lorry, which causes it to jackknife across the road

Collision course: As the car comes out of the exit lane, neither driver has anywhere to go
Collision course: As the car comes out of the exit lane, neither driver has anywhere to go
The woman driver of the Vauxhall Corsa is seen joining the A90 in Scotland – via the exit slip road.
She swerves to avoid the lorry on the exit ramp and ends up heading straight into the  path of the one carrying the Roadhawk GPS camera.
The Corsa driver then turns away and strikes the first lorry, wrecking her car.
But the collision causes the huge juggernaut to lose balance, topple over and scarily jackknife across the busy road before coming to a halt in shrubbery, on its side. An eerie silence follows.
Amazingly, no one was injured when the incident took place last Tuesday outside Aberdeen.
Smash: The Vauxhall Corsa is shown with its front ripped off, after it kissed the front of the first lorry, which is shown tipped over on its side
Smash: The Vauxhall Corsa is shown with its front ripped off, after it kissed the front of the first lorry, which is shown tipped over on its side

Jackknifed: The 44-tonne truck's cement bags are shown scattered across the A90 road, near to Aberdeen
Jackknifed: The 44-tonne truck's cement bags are shown scattered across the A90 road, near to Aberdeen.

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