Strangely enough, James and I were returning from Kimbolton a couple of years ago on the M11 and we were being held up by traffic. As we arrived at the scene of the incident, we noted a line of THE most peculiar looking skid marks. They were the usual VERY black marks BUT they were in diamond patterns rather than the usual multiple long stripes.
When we got to the incident, there was a stationary lorry with a car FIRMLY wedged sideways against the front of the lorry. The car was NOT crushed and the lorry had NOT climbed over the car but it was at a slight angle and we assumed that the tyres had been slowly rotating while the car was pushed in EXACTLY the manner on that video.... hence the strange pattern of the skids.
Obviously, I can't tell if that video is genuine or not but I can be pretty damned CERTAIN that it CAN happen like that as we saw the results of something similar a few seconds after it had occured.
You can imagine how it happens: the car changes lanes without using it's mirror and clips the lorry with the tail whiich rotates the car into that position. The car and lorry would be doing very similar speeds at the moment that the incident begins and thus there'd be no 'impact' speed and thus very little initial damage. So long as the car does not go 'under' the lorry, then the damage would be limited.
The incident we saw (the result of) was in the dry but that one looks like a damp road which would make the 'pushing' even less difficult for the lorry. The tyres wouldn't burst or de-bead for quite a while of such 'pushing' in the wet!
However, you HAVE to wonder where the BRAIN of the lorry drivber was as he seems to NOT have noticed the car or is doing it DELIBERATELY. He MAY have been 'retaliating' for being 'cut-up'....
I can only IMAGINE the HORROR of being in the car while being pushed..... not one I'd like to experience.....
So... from my very limited experince, I can see how that video MIGHT be genuine....
Ian
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Is this a clever prank or what? by 'Doink' (18 Mar 2010 @ 17:21)
