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Regshoe

Hammyman wrote: »

What I can't work out is how a lorry overtook you, pulled back in some time later and ended up pushing you up the motorway, even if it pulled in before completely passing you.

In order to push something, said something has to be in front of you.

Methinks that you saw the lorry indicating to pull back in and decided to undertake it because like most people you'll do anything not to be stuck behind a lorry/caravan etc. That is the only plausible way you could have ended up in front of it without him seeing you.

It is possible:

The lorry could have pulled in whilst it's front end was say 1-2 feet overlapping the back end of the car, effectively spinning the car and pushing it along sideways. That would also tally with it later rolling. It also makes sense as in this position the car would probably be in the blind spot of the lorry.

This would be similar to the news story from a few months back where a woman was spun around and pushed for quite some distance by a lorry. Though in that case she had been joining the motorway and I believe may have pulled out right in front of the lorry (can't recall exactly). In her case there was very heavy rain and the lack of friction probably contributed to her not flipping over.

vikingaero

Hammyman wrote: »

What I can't work out is how a lorry overtook you, pulled back in some time later and ended up pushing you up the motorway, even if it pulled in before completely passing you.

In order to push something, said something has to be in front of you.

Methinks that you saw the lorry indicating to pull back in and decided to undertake it because like most people you'll do anything not to be stuck behind a lorry/caravan etc. That is the only plausible way you could have ended up in front of it without him seeing you.

On the M20 there are several accidents every day involving (mainly foreign) HGV drivers who overtake cars, pull in and spin them into the embankment barriers.

It's a problem that's particularly acute between junctions 3 to 8 where there are a lot of cars in the slow lane waiting to exit junctions. I always try and get past HGV's asap, but when you're in a queue in Lane 1 waiting to exit, you're at the mercy of HGV's driving professionally.

Gene_Hunt_2

vikingaero wrote: »

On the M20 there are several accidents every day involving (mainly foreign) HGV drivers who overtake cars, pull in and spin them into the embankment barriers.

It's a problem that's particularly acute between junctions 3 to 8 where there are a lot of cars in the slow lane waiting to exit junctions. I always try and get past HGV's asap, but when you're in a queue in Lane 1 waiting to exit, you're at the mercy of HGV's driving professionally.

I bet most are blindside collisions caused when they pull out.

Hammyman

vikingaero wrote: »

On the M20 there are several accidents every day involving (mainly foreign) HGV drivers who overtake cars, pull in and spin them into the embankment barriers.

Yes yes, very good and I'm aware of that, especially having 16 years experience driving them. The point I'm saying is that the OP said the lorry had pulled out and overtaken them then pulled back in, I assume before fully passing the OP. They then said they were pushed up the road.

infoseeker wrote:

I was in the slow lane on the motorway, he decided to overtake me ( I was sticking to the 50mph limit) He travelled in the middle lane for quite a while but the car that was then in front of him wouldn't move out of his way. He decided to pull back into the slow lane but may have forgotten I was there

The two don't tally even if the lorry had only got partially past the car because at the very least, the lorry would have been sufficiently past the car that the whole length of the car was alongside and not just the last few feet. The lorry wouldn't have bothered pulling out if the car in L2 was adjacent to the car in L1 and matching its speed. The car in L2 that ended up in front of the lorry would have been ahead of the car in L1 by several feet or more and the lorry would have pulled out into L2 and accelerated thus pulling alongside and past the OPs car. The only way it could have happened so that the lorry ended up doing the equivalent of a PITT manouvre is if the OP had decided to undertake the lorry.

Its probably the exact same thinking the insurance company is doing hence the delay.

Gene_Hunt_2

Hammyman wrote: »

Yes yes, very good and I'm aware of that, especially having 16 years experience driving them. The point I'm saying is that the OP said the lorry had pulled out and overtaken them then pulled back in, I assume before fully passing the OP. They then said they were pushed up the road.

Didn't you have a problem reversing them?