Big bus man
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Thought that might get your attention!
A little story. last year my brother-in-law was driving towards the Dartford tunnel in his 40 ton lorry minding his own business when suddenly the smaller lorry in front sharply braked and swerved into another lane just avoiding tipping over, suddenly my brother-in-law was confronted with a stationary motorhome in the middle lane, choices; plunge into the back of it at 50mph probably killing the occupants or try and avoid it. He chose to avoid it and in doing so turned his lorry over and shedding his full load of timber making a mess of his arm in the process. 11am in the morning he was taken to hospital and later that day I set off to pick him up. Now 8pm and driving back round the M25 and the load was still being cleaned up, all this time the anti-clockwise carriageway had been closed and the stationary traffic went on for miles including many motorhomes, at least they could put the kettle on! Fortunately nobody was killed but the whole carnage was caused by a Motorhome. Just one of those things where nobody was to blame but the insurance bill for the entire operation came to £160,000. If you were one of those caught up in the jams that day all you would have heard is it was an overturned lorry, no mention of a motorhome being involved.
A little story. last year my brother-in-law was driving towards the Dartford tunnel in his 40 ton lorry minding his own business when suddenly the smaller lorry in front sharply braked and swerved into another lane just avoiding tipping over, suddenly my brother-in-law was confronted with a stationary motorhome in the middle lane, choices; plunge into the back of it at 50mph probably killing the occupants or try and avoid it. He chose to avoid it and in doing so turned his lorry over and shedding his full load of timber making a mess of his arm in the process. 11am in the morning he was taken to hospital and later that day I set off to pick him up. Now 8pm and driving back round the M25 and the load was still being cleaned up, all this time the anti-clockwise carriageway had been closed and the stationary traffic went on for miles including many motorhomes, at least they could put the kettle on! Fortunately nobody was killed but the whole carnage was caused by a Motorhome. Just one of those things where nobody was to blame but the insurance bill for the entire operation came to £160,000. If you were one of those caught up in the jams that day all you would have heard is it was an overturned lorry, no mention of a motorhome being involved.