Truck sends car spinning on QLD motorway — but who is at fault?
Dash cam footage has captured the moment a truck clipped the back of a car as it attempted to overtake on a Queensland highway.
The footage was shared on Facebook group Dash Cam Owners Australia and shows a car approaching two trucks that were travelling in the outside and inside lane on Port of Brisbane Motorway.
The car appears to use the left lane to overtake the first truck and then as it goes to change lanes, the truck clips it which sends it spinning out of control.
The video has generated a lot of conversation as viewers argue over which driver is at fault.
Some have claimed that the car driver should have been aware of the truck’s blind spots.
"While the truckie was in the right lane (and shoulda been in the left lane) ... you never never never sit to the left of a truck or semi ... and not expect to be run over. How hard is it to understand that a truckie cannot see you when you are slighty (sic) in front of him and to his left?,” one person said.
“People put on their indicators and think they can just move across. How about checking first if it was safe to do so. You pulled in front of a bloody big truck,” another added.
But others have come to the defence of the car driver.
“The dash-cam driver was in their lane doing everything legally and got hit by a truck.”
The owner of the Facebook page even contributed to the debate and said, “I’m confident if the roles were reversed here, everyone would be blaming the car for sitting in the right hand lane.”
A person who claimed to be the driver of the car said he gave both trucks plenty of time to see him before merging into the right lane.
“8 seconds after the right truck disappears from view, he started to veer towards the left lane. I do not know if he was merging or otherwise occupied,” he wrote.
“Unfortunately, he did not see my car and the front of his truck clipped the back drivers side of my car. This forced my car to spin onto the front of his truck and bounce off to the other side of the road.”
“At the time of impact, I was NOT merging into the right hand lane.”
The man claimed that the truck driver admitted fault to the police when they arrived.
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