Heart-stopping moment a huge splash of water blocks a lorry driver’s windscreen on a busy motorway
- Lorry driver attempts to overtake HGV in left hand lane on the M25 in Surrey
- As driver increases speed, a huge gush of water sweeps up onto windscreen
- Water blocks windscreen and drivers slows down to avoid serious collision
This is the shocking moment a lorry driver’s view is blocked by a huge splash of water on a busy motorway.
Footage, taken on a dash cam, shows the lorry attempting to overtake another HGV in the left-hand lane between junction seven and eight on the M25 in Surrey yesterday.
As the driver increases speed, a large gush of water is swept up from the lorry in front as it drives over a puddle.
Footage, take on a dash cam, shows the lorry attempting to overtake a HGV in the left-hand on the junction seven and eight on the M25 yesterday
The water splashes up into the front of the lorry and and covers the whole windscreen.
In a terrifying moment of panic, the driver immediately slows down to avoid a serious collision.
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John Mitchell, the lorry driver, said: ‘I was driving between junction seven and eight on the M25 anticlockwise, a route I take every day but this day it had been raining heavily so the road was soaking which made it hard to see puddles.
‘A truck to my left just in front couldn’t have seen the puddle so I wasn’t annoyed or bothered, it just caught me by surprise.
As the driver increases speed, a large gush of water is swept up from the lorry in front as it drives over a puddle
‘I saw a load of water come up from the road and come straight for me.
‘Even though I was behind a screen it still made me try to dodge the water.
‘Luckily I was already going in an almost straight line so when I couldn’t see a thing I knew I had to keep the steering wheel straight and lay off the throttle just in case.
‘We don’t normally get loads of surface water like that because of the constant flow of traffic not giving a chance for puddles to form.’
The water splashes up into the front of the lorry and and directly covers the whole windscreen
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