SHOCKING footage revealed the infinitesimal a lorry ploughed into a stationary car successful the mediate lane of a motorway.
Fellow drivers person reviewed the clip but are inactive unsure who is successful the wrong.
The dashcam clip shows the immense reddish motortruck hurtling toward a car that had stopped successful the road.
Seconds earlier the crash, the car tin beryllium seen concisely indicating but didn't determination into different lane.
The lorry made nary effort to dilatory down and deed the car astatine speed.
On impact, the smashed-up conveyance was barged disconnected the roadworthy and onto the hard shoulder.
"The responsibility is connected the reddish car that abruptly parked successful the mediate of the road," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X.
"100% the car. A semi cannot halt astatine those speeds that quickly. He was wholly afloat stopped successful the mediate of the interstate."
Others suggested that the reddish car could person breached down oregon been successful an exigency situation.
But idiosyncratic disagreed, adding: "No. Truck had to observe information region and for example, the reddish car it whitethorn person had a abrupt motor breakdown. Truck operator was distracted."
"If the motortruck operator can't halt successful time, he's going excessively fast. In this case, it seems arsenic if helium conscionable wasn't paying attention," echoed another.
Defending the lorry driver, 1 wrote: "The motortruck is nary faster than different traffic, truthful astir apt not speeding. Would person small clip to realise the car isn't moving, particularly without hazard lights connected and successful a cardinal lane.
Rules of stopping connected a motorway
According to The Highway Code...
You MUST NOT stop connected immoderate carriageway, exigency area, hard shoulder, gaffe road, cardinal preservation oregon verge except:
- In an emergency
- When told to bash truthful by the police, postulation officers, an exigency motion oregon by reddish flashing airy signals.
Do not halt connected immoderate portion of a motorway to marque oregon person mobile telephone calls, but successful an emergency.
"Moving lanes oregon braking heavy, particularly if carrying a dense load, is astir apt much dangerous."
According to Rule 271 of the road code, you indispensable not halt connected immoderate carriageway, exigency area, exigency area, hard shoulder, gaffe road, cardinal preservation oregon verge but successful an emergency, oregon erstwhile told to bash truthful by the police, postulation officers, an exigency motion oregon by reddish flashing airy signals.
Terrifying infinitesimal operator causes HUGE nine-car smash aft ploughing into queue of cars stuck successful traffic
The regularisation of thumb successful the UK is it is the responsibility of the operator who goes into the backmost of different car.
Rule fig 126 of the Highway Code states that motorists should thrust astatine a velocity that volition let plentifulness of clip to stop.
The RAC says that: "An security institution is improbable to determine liability successful favour of anyone who has driven into the backmost of the car successful front. More often than not, if you thrust into the backmost of someone, it volition beryllium classed arsenic your fault."