Driver walks away after car dragged by truck on NSW highway
Dashcam footage shows how a driver survived a collision with a truck that trapped her car then dragged it about 100 metres on a NSW highway.
The video shared on the DashCam Owners Facebook page on Thursday night shows the white vehicle darting through lanes of traffic on the Hume Highway before it attempted to overtake a truck travelling in the next lane over.
The car is seen colliding with the prime mover and becomes stuck then dragged for about 30 seconds while the truck attempts to pull over to the side of the road.
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The truckie in the clip, referred to only as John, said: "The coppers let her go with a small fine, their hands were tied."
He said he did not realise it was a car that caused his heavy vehicle to act up, until he pulled over to check what was wrong.
"Didn't know the car hit my truck, thought a wheel bearing went and was trying to find a safe spot to pull over," he told the Facebook group.
While the minute-long clip was recorded in May last year, social media users on Friday were quick to voice their disdain over the car driver's actions hours after the video was posted to the popular page.
"The driver may have received a small fine, but I bet they [were] very scared ... waiting for the driver to stop. It will be lesson well learnt," one wrote.
"Top man for keeping going and getting off the road ... could have prevented another accident occurring in the issuing traffic jam," he wrote.
The footage resembled dashcam vision of a similar collision where a truck changed lanes and crashed into a car at high-speed, and dragged it across two lanes of traffic on a busy Sydney highway last November.
Newsbreak – February 17
