Motorway drama after car plunges into trees (From Daily Echo)

Just PLEASE give me day when there is not an accident on this stretch of motorway.

I am waiting for the BBC to commission a couple of celebrities to try & drive this 'most dangerous road in the world' !

I agree with Mr Irate above: there seems to be a major incident every day at the moment

one in a million wrote:
I agree with Mr Irate above: there seems to be a major incident every day at the moment

Try not to get taken in by the hype the media would like you to believe......

Standard of driving awareness is a major cause of accidents. Nobody gives way anymore so the boot goes down and the driver, invariably looses control.

Motorway disciplin is non-existent now...
Maintaining an appropriate speed means nothing...
driving as fast as possible tailgating others that are in the way is the current standard.
And people are surprised that they have an 'accident'!

All of you above and anybody else who reads this.

I was witness to this accident this morning as the car in question was traveling behind me for a considerable distance before the accident occurred.What took place was viewed from my rear view mirror.
At 07.11am this morning (11/01/13) the car was overtaking the lorry as it was passing the junction. I saw it suddenly swerve out into the 3rd lane and then immediately career straight back across into the path of the lorry. It appeared to hit the lorry in the front off side at approximately 45 degrees. I saw the front of the lorry get pushed over as the car hit it but the car was spun off of the motorway and and up onto the verge. The lorry appeared to regain control and obviously pulled over.
I and another car which I was overtaking at the time kept on going as it was not safe to stop. There was other traffic passing the scene of the accident and we were approaching the Eastleigh/Chandlers Ford turning and the split in the M3 for the M27.
The car was not speeding. I can state this as a fact as my own vehicle is speed limited to 68mph and that car had been following me down the motorway for many miles.I know it was the same car all that way as it had one headlamp main beam out and had just a side light showing in it's place.

Before anyone else blames bad driving and jumping the gun - from what I saw and at the speed that it happened I would suggest that the car suffered a blowout which caused the driver to lose control. The lorry driver would not have been to blame.

solents wrote:
All of you above and anybody else who reads this.

I was witness to this accident this morning as the car in question was traveling behind me for a considerable distance before the accident occurred.What took place was viewed from my rear view mirror.
At 07.11am this morning (11/01/13) the car was overtaking the lorry as it was passing the junction. I saw it suddenly swerve out into the 3rd lane and then immediately career straight back across into the path of the lorry. It appeared to hit the lorry in the front off side at approximately 45 degrees. I saw the front of the lorry get pushed over as the car hit it but the car was spun off of the motorway and and up onto the verge. The lorry appeared to regain control and obviously pulled over.
I and another car which I was overtaking at the time kept on going as it was not safe to stop. There was other traffic passing the scene of the accident and we were approaching the Eastleigh/Chandlers Ford turning and the split in the M3 for the M27.
The car was not speeding. I can state this as a fact as my own vehicle is speed limited to 68mph and that car had been following me down the motorway for many miles.I know it was the same car all that way as it had one headlamp main beam out and had just a side light showing in it's place.

Before anyone else blames bad driving and jumping the gun - from what I saw and at the speed that it happened I would suggest that the car suffered a blowout which caused the driver to lose control. The lorry driver would not have been to blame.

Thanks a lot, I was looking forward to the impending arguments from the Daily Echo's Comments section usual "experts".

Are you sure it wasn't a maniac driver? Or a foreign lorry driver? Or the Tories / Labour / Lib Dems / EU / SCC / HCC / EU in some twisted way?

AD07881 wrote:

solents wrote:
All of you above and anybody else who reads this.

I was witness to this accident this morning as the car in question was traveling behind me for a considerable distance before the accident occurred.What took place was viewed from my rear view mirror.
At 07.11am this morning (11/01/13) the car was overtaking the lorry as it was passing the junction. I saw it suddenly swerve out into the 3rd lane and then immediately career straight back across into the path of the lorry. It appeared to hit the lorry in the front off side at approximately 45 degrees. I saw the front of the lorry get pushed over as the car hit it but the car was spun off of the motorway and and up onto the verge. The lorry appeared to regain control and obviously pulled over.
I and another car which I was overtaking at the time kept on going as it was not safe to stop. There was other traffic passing the scene of the accident and we were approaching the Eastleigh/Chandlers Ford turning and the split in the M3 for the M27.
The car was not speeding. I can state this as a fact as my own vehicle is speed limited to 68mph and that car had been following me down the motorway for many miles.I know it was the same car all that way as it had one headlamp main beam out and had just a side light showing in it's place.

Before anyone else blames bad driving and jumping the gun - from what I saw and at the speed that it happened I would suggest that the car suffered a blowout which caused the driver to lose control. The lorry driver would not have been to blame.

Thanks a lot, I was looking forward to the impending arguments from the Daily Echo's Comments section usual "experts".

Are you sure it wasn't a maniac driver? Or a foreign lorry driver? Or the Tories / Labour / Lib Dems / EU / SCC / HCC / EU in some twisted way?

Now you come to mention it - I think that it could have been Lord Lucan on his way to a days riding on his favourite horse 'Shergar'. ....

The broken headlight obviously made the car unstable. It now has no headlights and a lighter front end which may give cause to under steer in the future.

i have witnessed cars leaving a junction and going straight across to the outside lane in one movement and also the reverse action when they want to leave at a junction
there seems to be no use of indicators in any of the above its all me me me first and to hell with the rest of us so donrt blame the stretch of road blame the users

AD07881 wrote:

solents wrote:
All of you above and anybody else who reads this.

I was witness to this accident this morning as the car in question was traveling behind me for a considerable distance before the accident occurred.What took place was viewed from my rear view mirror.
At 07.11am this morning (11/01/13) the car was overtaking the lorry as it was passing the junction. I saw it suddenly swerve out into the 3rd lane and then immediately career straight back across into the path of the lorry. It appeared to hit the lorry in the front off side at approximately 45 degrees. I saw the front of the lorry get pushed over as the car hit it but the car was spun off of the motorway and and up onto the verge. The lorry appeared to regain control and obviously pulled over.
I and another car which I was overtaking at the time kept on going as it was not safe to stop. There was other traffic passing the scene of the accident and we were approaching the Eastleigh/Chandlers Ford turning and the split in the M3 for the M27.
The car was not speeding. I can state this as a fact as my own vehicle is speed limited to 68mph and that car had been following me down the motorway for many miles.I know it was the same car all that way as it had one headlamp main beam out and had just a side light showing in it's place.

Before anyone else blames bad driving and jumping the gun - from what I saw and at the speed that it happened I would suggest that the car suffered a blowout which caused the driver to lose control. The lorry driver would not have been to blame.

Thanks a lot, I was looking forward to the impending arguments from the Daily Echo's Comments section usual "experts".

Are you sure it wasn't a maniac driver? Or a foreign lorry driver? Or the Tories / Labour / Lib Dems / EU / SCC / HCC / EU in some twisted way?

It must have been Tories fault because if they hadn't of given us all the opportunity of greater awards for achievement then we wouldn't been able to afford cars....

Cyber__Fug wrote:

AD07881 wrote:

solents wrote:
All of you above and anybody else who reads this.

I was witness to this accident this morning as the car in question was traveling behind me for a considerable distance before the accident occurred.What took place was viewed from my rear view mirror.
At 07.11am this morning (11/01/13) the car was overtaking the lorry as it was passing the junction. I saw it suddenly swerve out into the 3rd lane and then immediately career straight back across into the path of the lorry. It appeared to hit the lorry in the front off side at approximately 45 degrees. I saw the front of the lorry get pushed over as the car hit it but the car was spun off of the motorway and and up onto the verge. The lorry appeared to regain control and obviously pulled over.
I and another car which I was overtaking at the time kept on going as it was not safe to stop. There was other traffic passing the scene of the accident and we were approaching the Eastleigh/Chandlers Ford turning and the split in the M3 for the M27.
The car was not speeding. I can state this as a fact as my own vehicle is speed limited to 68mph and that car had been following me down the motorway for many miles.I know it was the same car all that way as it had one headlamp main beam out and had just a side light showing in it's place.

Before anyone else blames bad driving and jumping the gun - from what I saw and at the speed that it happened I would suggest that the car suffered a blowout which caused the driver to lose control. The lorry driver would not have been to blame.

Thanks a lot, I was looking forward to the impending arguments from the Daily Echo's Comments section usual "experts".

Are you sure it wasn't a maniac driver? Or a foreign lorry driver? Or the Tories / Labour / Lib Dems / EU / SCC / HCC / EU in some twisted way?

It must have been Tories fault because if they hadn't of given us all the opportunity of greater awards for achievement then we wouldn't been able to afford cars....

I don't class filling out a benefits claim form an achievement.....

Still does not answer why it's the same piece of road every day !

There is no such thing as a dangerous road, it is the drivers that do not drive to the conditions that are dangerous and as said this incident had nothing to do with the road layout.
what I really want to know is how did the Echo decide on the headline 'car plunges into tree'?