Taxi Driver Online

How about the motorists who pull in front of a HGV on the motorway cutting it's breaking distance down to nothing? Them HGV's can't stop like a car they need up to three times the distance in which to stop when compared to a car.

I've got my HGV / LGV class 1. Car drivers are a lorry drivers worse nightmare especially at roundabouts, there have been many times where I've been at a traffic island wanting to turn left, I've had to take up 1 and a half lanes to enable me to swing out and not clip the kerb. The amount of drivers who come down the inside is scary. Some of them have a death wish.

• Rona Williams' terrifying ordeal, which lasted nearly a full minute, is captured by a passenger in another car. The footage is now on YouTube.

Rona Williams's Renault Clio became trapped under the front bumper of the tanker as she drove along the A1(M) near Leeds and was pushed along at high speeds until the driver finally noticed her.

The accident was filmed by a passenger in a car travelling on the same stretch of motorway. It was posted on YouTube last week.


Mrs Williams, 31, emerged from the ordeal uninjured but said she was terrified the Arclid Transport lorry would ram her into the crash barrier and kill her, so she tried calling for help on her mobile phone.

She said: "I just screamed at the operator 'I'm going to die, I'm going to die – can you do something?'

"She tried to calm me down, but there wasn't really anything she could do at the end of the phone."

Mrs Williams, a vet from York, had only joined the motorway ten minutes away from her surgery in Garforth when her car was clipped by the tanker and twisted sideways, trapping it under the front bumper.

In an attempt to release her vehicle, she pulled on the handbrake and flashed her hazard warning lights to try to catch the driver's attention, as well as that of any other road users, but it took the lorry driver nearly a minute to notice her.

"I kept thinking, 'Nobody knows I'm here. Nobody has seen me,'" she said. "I tried everything.

"I was watching other cars, thinking, 'Help me, just help me', but they didn't seem to be doing very much."

When the lorry driver became aware of what was happening, he was "all over the place", Mrs Williams said, and finally managed to bring both vehicles to a stop on the hard shoulder.

He did not seem too worried about what had happened, Mrs Williams claimed, and "he even asked if I thought he needed to hang around".

The dramatic YouTube mobile phone footage, which has been viewed millions of times, shows the Clio being pushed by the lorry in the fast lane of the motorway.

A male voice can be heard inside the car from which the dramatic scene was captured, shouting: "He hasn't even seen it."

Cheshire-based Arclid Transport and West Yorkshire Police are both investigating the incident.