Foreign lorry driver hit our car

Regarding foreign lorry drivers. My wife and I witnessed what is now the most common sight on our Motorways and that is foreign lorries not indicating then pulling out on cars in the middle lane. The authorities should now set up a campaign to warn other road users to the same level as drink driving and use of mobiles, as what is clear is that foreign lorry drivers cannot safely drive on our roads.
There should now be a law passed to compel these foreign maniacs to drive on the inside lane only.
Last Tuesday 2nd March 2010, driving clockwise along the M25 a few miles before the A10, my wife and I witnessed first hand just how dangerous these driver are. A small green car in the middle lane was in front of us with a foreign Lorry in the inside lane.
The lorry then for some reason and without indicating then pulled out into the middle lane catching the back end of the car. The car flipped in front of the lorry and rolled up the embankment. As the road was packed and doing 70 mph obviously it was difficult to stop immediately but I drove through the shower of debris and pulled over to call the police. I looked back and noticed the lorry had pulled over too, but not sure if he stayed at the scene as the police have not updated me which is also disappointing as I would been happy to have been witness to this gross act of dangerous driving.

Hi, I'm Polish and I work for English Accident Management Company from Plymouth. If you've had non fault accident with Polish drivers (I mean Polish Insurance) and struggle to sort out the claim with Polish Insurance give us a call - we provide complete claims management service and maybe able to help. Our tel: 01752 264910, Crashcare
Regards, Jarek

Er kirsten... Why not? Stop acting so politically correct!!!

Why was it so important to mention that he is Polish? ; (

I'm probably missing something here

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This happened to me three years ago. I was in the third lane of the M25 and he just pulled out. Sickening cruching of metal and I was hurled through all the traffic to the edge of the motorway and crashed into the barrier. http://i.imgur.com/nsuLT.jpg. The lorry driver was also Polish. I was so expecting to die as it all happened. I never got anything back. Not because of the lorry driver, he was actually crying because he thought he had ki11ed me, but because I used "Yes" Insurance. I spent almost four hours on the phone being redirected to other people, told I wasn't covered, ending up 4 hours later back with the original person I had spoken to. I gave up after a few weeks. To this day I can't overtake a lorry without coming out in goosebumps and gritting my teeth. When you overtake a foreign lorry, take my advice and go like a bat out of hell.

Its amazing how they manage to travel thousands of miles through Continental Europe without a problem, yet come to the UK and cluless stuck up car drivers say they can't drive. Some are poor driversbut not that many. What all British car drivers have in common is poor observation. How many of you bother to scan all around you when driving? Some of your ideason here areso retarded. Ok, put everything on sea containers- less goods due to containers weighing more= more cost. More time unloading them/ Loading them= food less fresh. Everything in logistics is done for a reason, and that reason is simply because it works well. If you are really passionate about lowering the number then make a petition to cut the amountof red tape and cost a UK haulier has compared to his continental brother.

If immigration kept the foreign lorry drivers passports and a bond from the freight companies as security in case they caused an accident while they were in the uk, they or their bosses would soon admit liability when the lorry was stuck in dover not earning money.
Another option is only the sea-containers could come over from the continent ( not the lorry ) and be driven by uk lorry drivers when they got here. This would mean the lorries are paying uk road tax, uk fuel duty, uk vat and are uk insured - all at a time when british people need jobs !

Hi Amanda, like I said I'm getting exactly the same treatment from my insurers, makes you wonder why we bother paying our premiums.

Further to my comments posted on 2nd October: six months after being side swiped by a Polish lorry on the M4 and pushed into the outside lane my insurance company are saying that he says we pulled over into him and so they are going for a 50-50. Apparently as no one stopped to provide a witness statement, we don't have a leg to stand on! As if anyone driving a little Peugeot 107 is going to pull into the left hand lane into a huge great lorry and surely the fact that he bounced us into the outside lane would indicate that he was the one moving out not us moving in. I urge everyone to sign up to Lauren's petition (http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/foreignlorry)
and if anyone knows of any other campaigns please post them on here. This unfairness must be stopped.

Insurance company are still insisting its a 50/50 claim. absolutely ridiculous - I now have to rephotograph my car door to prove that his wheel studs ate through my door on an angle, I'll also have to find a similar model truck to take photos and measurements that prove it was him changing lanes and not me.... i.e demonstrate that if I had changed lanes the only way his wheel studs could have eaten through my door would have meant my bonnet was 8 inches under the body of his cab......

But what about changing lanes at motorway splits or due to accidents?
Most sideswipes happen becuase they move over when they see someone coming down a slip road.