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Woman's lucky escape after collision with trailer
1:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009
A WOMAN had a lucky escape after her car was nearly crushed under a lorry.
The female car driver escaped without injury after her Renault Megane collided with the trailer of a lorry reversing into the entrance to ASDA in Pipps Hill retail park, off Miles Gray Road, Basildon.
Shocked shoppers described how the car was dragged along by the lorry.
An onlooker said: “She was lucky she wasn’t decapitated. If there hadn’t been bars along the underside of the lorry the car would have gone straight under it.”
Police closed the road after the incident, at around 9am, while the damaged car was loaded into a recovery vehicle and towed away.
An ambulance was called but the woman was fine.
The lorry driver drove away at 10.20am and the road was reopened.
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perini, Leigh on Sea says...
9:42pm Fri 3 Jul 09
Trainman, Kings Lynn, ENGLAND says...
12:38am Sat 4 Jul 09
Like AJZ asked, HOW do you load a car INTO a recovery truck? Further, they are a Lorry actually, as Truck is American and this IS the UK where the term LORRY is used, thanks.
Damaged – the car and trailer
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RJD_Wiz, Basildon says...
1:49pm Fri 3 Jul 09
I wasn't there so can only speculate, but it's not like this huge lorry can stop suddenly, cut you up & then start reversing...Also Echo have reported that the car was nearly crushed?? The front end looks pretty crushed to me!
And finally, how do you load a car 'into' a recovery truck?