I don't understand how the driver could not see a Clio attached to the front bumper!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPmw3OVQMo

Nicole?

Papa?

Nicole?

Papa I appear to be stuck to the front of a lorry.

I wonder if that's real? Surely the wheels and tyres would destroy themselves after being pushed sideways like that? I wuld have thought the tyres would come off the rims causing the wheel to dig in and flip the car*



*This theory is based on years of reading comic books and watching cheap action movies.

it looks to be quite wet though, maybe this helped prolong the tyres. I reckon it's genuine....

Im in Agreement C2D, my votes on the car flipping.
Friction alone would manage that im sure.

my vote is its fake...

the car would of flipped a long time ago.

Also, how could you not see a blue car under your windscreen??

I'm saying real, if you notice the clio is casting a shadow at the beginning of the video, then there are some sparks that fly off at about 19 seconds

Play the above video in one window and this in another window .

LOL that is good.

I'm saying it is not real. I think the lorry looks like it is going too fast?

Maybe it was road rage!

Oh well.....think of the Petrol the Clio saved!!!

I'd say that is real.

I'm amazed the lorry driver didn't feel it when it got there and why didn't they clio driver use the horn?

come on, it's gotta be fake!!

It's in the sun news paper today saying it's real!!

Must be real then if it's in the Sun

it's all over sky news now too!!! still keep checking if it's april 1st....




..........it's on bbci too

thats what i was thinking!

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8574609.stm

It's real, I have seen this happen myself and seen the result dozens of times on the M25.
It normally happend when continental lorries switch lanes an do not see the car in a blind spot at the front corner of their cab, as they switch they flip the rear bumber of the car car and it runs sideways along the front of the cab, often well out of sight too!

I spotted it on BBC news today after seeing the link last night.

Got beaten to it, dam you Mario!

I'm sorry but wet road or not those tyres would be smoking (if they even stayed on for that long).

I say FAKE! .

Baz

Judging by the sparks emmiting from the back or the lorry the tyres have long since gone. The contact patch of the tyres compared to the force of the lorry would mean it will easily push along like the video.

Many reports of these incidents and a lot of the time the lorry driver had no idea he was pushing a car at all

Having seen it happen myself, albeit with the lorry driver stopping pretty quickly, I can easily nelieve this to be genuine.

A vote for fake here too.

There is no way those tyres would survive. It would be on the rims, emitting tons more sparks, and probably flipping over too.

Anyway, it's been removed from YouTube now.

I'm not sure how it could be fake, what with the driver of the lorry being sent home once the video was released, and the police started making enquiries.

Well apparently it was already investigated by the haulage firm anf police back in Jan when it occurred, and they are now going to reinvestigate it in the light of this footage.

That seems pretty real circumstances to me.

I can't see how anyone would spend so much time and effort making such a crap fake.

Let's face it, if your making a fake video to show off your wonderful CGI skills, would you:

1. Use such a poor quality phone clip?
2. Not try to make it more dramatic?

I think those that are crying "FAKE!", are suffering from movie reality syndrom. A fantasy world where the laws of physics are stretched to their limits for the sake of dramatic effect.
A place where cars explode on impact and the bullet riddled hero crawls from the burning wreck.

It is understandable, we see much more in the way of accidents and extreme circumstance in the movies than we do in real life. Let's face it how many here have REALLY seen a car being pushed sideways?

BBC reporting the incident....

That's the whole point. If you are making a fake vid then you would use the "crapness" of a shaky video phone to mask the fakeness.

That said, if it is being investigated by the police now then I guess it must be real. To me the lorry looked like it was going too fast.

Oh and yes I have seen a real car being pushed sideways before - Kyle and Sarah push the Terminator through a car park and into a wall at high speed

Whoo-hoo! I get to post another XKCD link

Id say its real, the lorry does look like its going fast but then we dont know how fast the car that was filming is going.

Wet tarmac will reduce alot of friction so there wouldnt be much smoke, even if its burnt through the tyres itl be rubbing on aluminium wheels which wouldnt cause many sparks at all, even on dry tarmac.