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A motorcylist had a near-miss after a truck driver came at him on the wrong side of the road head-on.
The motorcyclist encountered the truck on July 16 near Lakeside in Essex.
Traffic travelling in the opposite direction, heading towards the Dartford Crossing, had been in standstill traffic for hours that day, while the roads heading in the opposite direction remained clear.
So the motorcyclist was shocked when he nearly collided with the truck, travelling on the wrong side of the road.
He told Talk to the Press: “As an experienced rider I always expect the unexpected, and I expected cars doing U-turns. But this wasn’t something I expected.
“It wasn’t a pleasant moment, I locked the rear wheel, it was an emergency stop for me.
“I was pinned against the curb, I left a black mark from my tyre all the way down the road from braking.
“If worst came to the worst, I would’ve had to pull the throttle and go into the fields.
“It wasn’t an ‘oh my God, I’m going to die’ moment, so much as a ‘what are you doing?’ moment.
“I’ve been around bikes my entire life and accidents on and off the tracks don’t scare me much but that truck coming at me made me question what I was seeing.
“When I stopped the truck was an inch or two from the corner of my bike.”
It was later reported that the traffic going the opposite way was due to a crash near junction 31 for Lakeside Shopping Centre in Grays, Essex.
The motorcyclist, known as @motocasperuk on TikTok, reported the incident and shared the footage with Essex Police, who confirmed the report of ‘driving without due care and attention’ is being processed.
The motorcyclist added: “If it had been a new rider on the road, it might have been a different situation or outcome.
“I always have a bike camera filming because of incidents like this.
“I’ve actually not been out on my bike since.
“I felt anger and disbelief, I was appalled.
“I want to make awareness for drivers, that us motorcyclists, we are watching, we do record, and we will share it.”
