Terrifying moment lorry sideswipes car while changing lanes and shunts it down the M1 in a cloud of tyre smoke
- The lorry was changing lanes when the collision happened near Leeds
- Dashcam captures moment lorry hits the car and it spins in front of the HGV
- Filmer said the Mazda driver escaped without injury through the passenger door
This is the heart-stopping moment a lorry and car collided on the M1 near Leeds as the HGV changed lanes.
The lorry was moving into the inside lane when it sideswiped the silver Mazda, sending the car spinning across its bonnet.
Dash cam footage taken from a car behind shows the lorry then pushing the Mazda sideways along the motorway, leaving smoking tyre marks on the tarmac.
The lorry was changing lanes when the collision happened on the M1 near Leeds, the car was shunted in front of the HGV (pictured)
The footage, from May 26th at around 12.50pm, shows the blue Boughey lorry passing the exit slip road for junction 45, the A63 to Leeds, in the middle lane.
A silver Mazda car can be seen in the inside lane. The lorry starts to move over as though it is about to pull in tightly behind the car.
The car then completely disappears from view before re-emerging, and being shunted sideways in front of the lorry.
Footage shows a blue HGV lorry travelling in the middle lane that had passed a white van. As it moves over, the Mazda car is shunted
The driver recording the incident then pulls into the hard shoulder.
According to the driver who recorded the footage, the woman in the Mazda car escaped without injury through the passenger side door.
Dashcam captures moment lorry shunts the car and smoke billows in the air
‘She’d managed to exit through the passenger side door as the driver side doors were full of HGV, she looked like she was going to keel over and was as white as a sheet.
‘I called 999 and asked for the police, they actually arrived before I’d finished making the call,’ the driver told MailOnline.
He added that the lorry driver ‘seemed absolutely gutted that he’d hit the car’ and he was really concerned that the other driver was OK.’
The HGV driver allegedly said the car must have been in the ‘blind spot’ of his mirror.
West Yorkshire police told MailOnline that the driver was reported for allegedly driving without due care and attention.
MailOnline have contacted Boughey for comment.