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Almost wiped out by lorry driver - would you report?

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hannah7411 · 13/03/2020 21:50

Was on a motorway today 3 lanes I was in the left lane, massive lorry in middle lane, lorry driving at the side of me starts indicating and moving over to my way, I used my horn to let him know I was there, still starts moving into my lane and then when I tooted again he blares his horn for a silly amount of time back at me, his own stupid fault completely by not checking mirrors. He was an inch away from totally wiping me out and causing a fatal accident, my heart was beating really fast I was really shaken up by it. I noted the name of his van and time when I pulled over shortly after, after I'd taken the slip road. It's happened before a few months ago similar incident I had came off slip road and a woman starting coming over to my lane to the point I had to swerve back to the slip road. I drive this road everyday to work and feel it's only a matter of time before one of these idiotic drivers seriously cause an accident with me or someone else involved and it really worries me. Im a sensible driver never caused an accident or been close I drive at the speed limit not slow and not not over. I drive a little car and I feel like that angers people! Should I report this idiot from today or leave it?

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RiftGibbon · 13/03/2020 21:55

If you have the number plate and time it happened, yes report.
Even better if you have dashcam footage.

bedknobsand · 13/03/2020 22:00

It sounds like you were in the wrong? If you were in the left lane going at speed limit it sounds like
You were undertaking him? And therefore were in his blind spot.....

Northernsoullover · 13/03/2020 22:03

@bedknobsand I thought the left lane was to travel in ?
Anyway OP yes I would report to the head office. I reported a Luton driver to their head office for using a mobile while driving. I was the passenger so I was able to.

Weregoingonanadventure · 13/03/2020 22:09

Were you trying to undertake him? Did you drive up the left land and start to go past him? Or had he been coming up the middle lane, passed you and started pulling in too early?
Either way, he shouldn't be aware of what is around him but if he was in the middle lane, looked and then started to move and you had driven up alongside him and into his blindspot then you are in the wrong for trying to undertake.

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hannah7411 · 13/03/2020 22:13

@bedknobsand how on earth was I in this wrong lane? I had been in the left lane since coming onto the motorway and needed to be in that lane to take the slip road further up... wether I was in his blind spot or not that isn't my fault. I was driving at the speed limit. There was only me in the car so didn't have time to get number plate before he wizzed off and I took the slip road. I do have a dashcam but stupidly haven't set it up properly yet, will do that ASAP. I have the name of the company and the time it happened though.

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bedknobsand · 13/03/2020 22:14

If he was already travelling in the middle lane he should've known you were there but you shouldn't be sitting in the blind spot of a truck. Surely that's common sense.

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hannah7411 · 13/03/2020 22:15

Again, I was not undertaking. I needed to be in this lane to take the slip road a little further up. The blame is not on me whatsoever, that is clear. I just wanted to know wether people thought this should be reported.

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whydoineedanickname · 13/03/2020 22:17

How did you end up in his blind spot? Who was travelling faster?

Weregoingonanadventure · 13/03/2020 22:17

You dont undertake people. If you want to pass someone, you move to the outside lane and pass them then move back in. You dont undertake. This is why.
He's in the middle lane. He checks is mirrors and its clear. He signals and starts to move. In that time, you've bombed up the left lane and ended up in his blindspot as he starts his move. That's why you dont try to undertake. If that's what happened then, he would still be blamed probably but you helped cause it.

If you were driving and he overtook you and then moved in too soon, then it's all his fault

bedknobsand · 13/03/2020 22:18

Even if you were going to the slip road you're still undertaking him. You're a car at speed limit in the blind spot of a truck going at 50-60. You shouldnt be in his blind spot....

bedknobsand · 13/03/2020 22:19

So no, no I don't think you should report him.

PickwickThePlockingDodo · 13/03/2020 22:19

As he started pulling in, didn't you start to slow down? If you were going 70 in the 'slow' lane it was probably quite hard for him to overtake you enough to be able to pull in anyway.

SqueakyChicken · 13/03/2020 22:21

As an occasional panel van driver it is really shocking how little vision you have, and how large your blind spot is! I think some car drivers don’t quite grasp how dangerous it is to sit in someone’s blind spot (I certainly didn’t until I drove a larger vehicle).

I wouldn’t say it’s your fault exactly but I think people should be more aware of others blind spots. A large lorry would clearly be overtaking and intended to return to the left hand lane.

leolion81 · 13/03/2020 22:21

You don't seem to grasp what undertaking is. It's irrelevant what the speed limit is in this situation, you must drive slower than the vehicle in the lane to the right of you to allow them to overtake. He wasn't aware you were there so no you shouldn't report him.

HolyChickpea · 13/03/2020 22:22

I wouldn't report it no. If you were driving at the speed limit were you going faster than him?

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hannah7411 · 13/03/2020 22:24

Gosh 😂 one thing I've always noticed on this site is people thrive on op blaming, if I had of posted this being the lorry driver then I've no doubt the replies would be different. I was not 'bombing' up the motorway, I was driving the speed limit. If lorry drivers are incapable or driving at the speed limit then they should stay in the left lane. There's been so many accidents on this road caused by these idiotic lorry drivers some ending in death that there has to be something done to teach them.

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LER83 · 13/03/2020 22:25

Sounds like it was more like this, lanes on right moving slower then left lane, then it is legal for op to be going ahead of the lorry, she is not undertaking in this situation.

Almost wiped out by lorry driver - would you report?

bedknobsand · 13/03/2020 22:26

But then the left lane would just be one huge long line of lorries not overtaking each other and nothing else would be able to join the motorway .

OP, stop undertaking other vehicles. Particularly those which are large and have significant blind spots. YOU are the one making it dangerous. Learn to overtake safely before getting back on a motorway.....

leolion81 · 13/03/2020 22:26

So you admit you were undertaking, doing 70mph when he wasn't able to do that speed. Entirely your fault, sorry.

Weregoingonanadventure · 13/03/2020 22:27

You're not answering though. Were you going faster than him? Did you start passing him on his left?
I'm thinking you did. So you were undertaking. Which is a no no. You put yourself in his blind spot. Your fault not his.
You had just joined the road; you dont know why he was in the middle lane or who he had been passing but he was starting to move back in. You undertook, which is dangerous, and almost caused an accident.

Whenever that stupid laughing crying emoji comes out, it's always when someone doesnt want to accept blame and thinks it's hilarious that anyone would accuse then of... exactly what they actually did.

PickwickThePlockingDodo · 13/03/2020 22:28

I was not 'bombing' up the motorway, I was driving the speed limit

In the left hand lane preventing a lorry driver in the middle from pulling in. Then you decide to teach him a lesson and start beeping him
Little tip for you, OP, don't fuck with lorries because I think you will always come off worse

Weregoingonanadventure · 13/03/2020 22:28

@LER83
That's during congestion!! Read it. That's when traffic is bumper to bumper and everyone is crawling along at way under the limit. You just move with the flow of traffic. It doesnt apply to an open road when the speed limit is obtainable.

Windyone · 13/03/2020 22:29

So you’re saying you were driving at the speed limit and the lorry was not? So you WERE undertaking?

HolyChickpea · 13/03/2020 22:34

I wasnt blaming you OP, just trying to make sense of it.
Speed limit for you is 70 but it's 60 for him. You need to be letting him pull back in to the left lane as he's slower. If that means you have to slow down, let him in infront then overtake then so be it.
It sounds like you were going too fast on his inside for him to be able to pull in but I'm not sure as you haven't answered. If that is the case then you're in the wrong so dont report him.

FrankieManca · 13/03/2020 22:36

Was the lorry overtaking you, at a faster speed than you, before cutting back into your lab in front of you?

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