Lorry pushing car video

[northernladuk]

what on earth is going on here. Lorry at full tilt pushing a car sideways down the motorway??

Lorry car

[TimberWolf]

What a nightmare for the woman "passenger".

[cojak]

what on earth is going on here. Lorry at full tilt pushing a car sideways down the motorway??

Lorry car

Dear God...

That made me feel faint, no CGI there!!

[saptastic]

Wow. unbelievable!

[hyperD]

It's those new Garmin autopilot systems - truck driver was having 40 pot noodles in the back.

[wobbegong]

Good heavens! Even if he didn't see it, how on earth did the truck driver not notice either the noise, the smell of burning rubber, or the change in handling characteristics and/or acceleration of his vehicle?

I suspect some "chemical" impairment.

[hyperD]

... and/or acceleration of his vehicle?...

That can be explained by the equation that describes the law of conservation of linear momentum:

I = mv - mu

But as to the rest - I totally agree - it's bizarre.

[Spacecadet]

I saw the same thing happen on the M4 in 1997.

Tesco wagon pushing a white car sideways.

For some reason I looked to my left as I overtook the truck & though "That doesn't look right" & booted it.

Truck driver put his brakes on & the car shot across the motorway & hit the central crashbarrier.

Lovely.

No one hurt so far as I know.

Had a similar experience myself on the M42 one night
Over took a truck, looked in my side mirrors and thought "His lights look wierd" as I went a bit further I got a better look in the rearview mirror...
His lights looked weird cause they were shining through a car that was in front of the truck and sideways.

Pulled over and called the police, traffic resumed to normal flow in the 5 minutes whilst I was on the hard shoulder

[OwlHoot]

what on earth is going on here. Lorry at full tilt pushing a car sideways down the motorway??

Lorry car

I shouldn't worry if I were you. It's most likely just some Top Gear stunt.

If you look closely, Richard Hammond is probably in the car, and Clarkson driving the truck.

[threaded]

That can be explained by the equation that describes the law of conservation of linear momentum:

I = mv - mu

But as to the rest - I totally agree - it's bizarre.

Actually, if look closely, the tanker was totally empty, so there's an awful lot less momentum to conserve than you might suppose.