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Disco Matt:
I cannot believe that you wouldn't notice the extra drag, especially if you drive for a living. You'd know how much right foot you normally have to use to maintain speed.

A while ago I had a partially flat tyre due to poor sealing between bead and rim, I definitely noticed the extra drag as well as the scary handling before I pulled over. That was a semi-flat tyre, not trying to push another car sideways!

Saffy:

--- Quote from: LiftedDisco on March 22, 2010, 13:44:52 ---but these things happen...

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if that was true then there is something seriously broken somewhere in the system to allow this to happen for that duration unnoticed, be in the vehicles safety features or HGV driver training.

LiftedDisco:
If she's pulled across in front of the truck, the combination of sideways movement in the car and forwards movement of both parties would mean that any 'impact' is likely to be slight in a 38 tonne vehicle doing a steady 56mph

Sure, if there is a bang or jolt, your immediate instinct is to check mirrors - it's a slight design fault of the human body (often overlooked by cyclists etc...) that you cannot physically check both mirrors at the same time - left, right & check both again with thoughts of 'have I got a flat' or even has a brake shoe ridden over, locking the wheel (has happened to me once...) before realising what's going on...

Like I said originally, not nice, but cars are replaceable and I am fully aware that it could have been much worse...

However, please don't set out to vilify the driver for things that happen (by accident)!

muddyjames:

--- Quote from: Disco Matt on March 22, 2010, 14:12:55 ---I cannot believe that you wouldn't notice the extra drag, especially if you drive for a living. You'd know how much right foot you normally have to use to maintain speed.


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I very much susepct that he had cruise control on so you wouldnt notice any extra power being needed, also along a motorway, if you didnt have cruise control, your foot is planted on the floor anyway as the limiter max's out at 56mph, so again, no extra right foot can be given.

Just think though, your looking ahead all the time and so why should there suddenly be something stuck to the front of the lorry, surely you would have seen something ahead to collide with and certainly wouldnt expect to find it had pivoted around the front of your lorry.

gtomo2:
If she was coming up his blind side (driving up the near side) he would not have see her. if She had then gone to move lanes without checking her mirror first she could of caught the front n/s of the truck and been flipped infront of it. like said before the driver would not really feel anything mybe even think its just a pothole.

 i have hit the rear of a car at a roundabout i didnt even know it was there when i went to stop as he came up the n/s of me then pulled in to my lane. pushed him around the roundabout heard a horn blast and checked my mirrors not front window looking down.

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