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Driver's 'miracle' escape from crash after his car was crushed by three lorries
A driver had a ‘miraculous’ escape after a horror crash that saw his car crushed between three lorries.
While the car was completely wrecked and the back half crushed, the man, in his 40s, walked away with only minor injuries.
He was driving between two lorries and behind another HGV on the M1 southbound between junctions 14 and 15 when the crash happened on 29 April.
Police have now issued pictures of the mangled silver Nissan Almera to warn of the dangers of tailgating.
PC Dave Lee, of the Safer Roads Team, said: “As you can see from the photos, the car in this crash was completely crushed.
“For the driver to walk away with only minor injuries is nothing short of a miracle as it’s often a very different outcome when we deal with crashes on the motorway.
“Had there been people in the backseat, they would almost certainly have been killed that day.
“We’re releasing these photos because we’re hoping the damage caused will encourage people to think about the distance they’re driving from the vehicle in front when they’re on motorways.
“Leaving that gap could save lives.”
This week it emerged almost two thirds of deaths on British roads happen on just 12.5% of the network.
A study by the Road Safety Foundation Topping found that Britain’s most dangerous road is the A5004 from Buxton to Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire - a 7.5-mile single carriageway A-road that saw 16 serious or fatal crashes between 2012 and 2017.
The RSF found single-carriageway A-roads in rural areas are the most dangerous overall, and A-roads maintained by local councils were a staggering four times more dangerous than Highways England and central government-maintained major A-roads and motorways.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has pledged to invest around £1 billion a year from next year to improve safety on local A-roads.
