How did lorry driver not realize

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rriageway.html

This makes me feel sick.

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

That doesn't make sense a driver would feel the drag of pushing a weight unless they were asleep of course...

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

Strangely enough, this is the second time I have heard/seen this happen.
The lorry reckoned the car was below his windscreen vision - which is probably true - but as Meg said, I would have thought he would have either felt it, or heard the sound of the car scraping along the tarmac.

I wonder why the car occupant didn't keep hand on the car hooter and made as much noise as possible - or did he?

Was the lorry driver on his phone or something I wonder?

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

I would love to know how it got into that position in the first place.

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

Yes, that's a point.

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the lorry driver was on his phone.
They often are.

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

That's what I said too, JBR.
Makes you wonder don't it.

Or he could have been fiddling about with anything, his dockets, his sandwich . . . anything.
But as Dongle also said, how on earth did the car get in that position in the first place? The only way I can guess is, the car driver came down a slip road to join motorway and got hit side-on.

As always, there will be a lot we don't know yet.

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...e-hit-21112279

That's one side of the story, and it may be true, but a GTI, driven by a car reviewer, in the slow lane .....

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

I misunderstood. I thought it was on a motorway, that is why I said about maybe the car was coming down the slip road.
This was not the case at all then. Apologies.

Re: How did lorry driver not realize

AFAIK, parts of the A40, inside London, are motorway standard but most is not, until it joins up with the M40, outside London.

So maybe there are slip roads .....