How can you crash into a parked lorry on a dual carriageway?

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Very sad news that the woman died but very fortunate her child suffered minor injuries.

People were posting on facebook about the A19 being shut north of the A689 due to an accident but I never thought it would be something as stupid as this!

The layby that the lorry was parked in I assume is this one

Can't believe the lack of care she must have been taking with a child in the car!
 
Flip!

You're right tho, what the hell was she doing to hit a parked (in a layby) lorry. OcUK detective screams texting / phoning but guess we'll never know so shouldn't speculate
 
Could have been a tyre blow out for all you know. I just don't get how you can accuse a woman that has just died with that little information.
 
"The 57-year-old occupant of the HGV was uninjured."

No **** Sherlock, strangely I sincerly doubted a Corsa could cause much damage to a HGV, parked or otherwise.

Very sad. You just don't know what was happening in the car at the time.
 
My dad had the opposite happen to him a few years ago, fortunately he wasn't in the car when the HGV hit his car (parked on the hard shoulder after tyre blowout). Strange things happen on the roads.

I think it's a bit much to cry wolf with so little information though.
 
I feel fer her daughter, a crash is a bad enough experience on it's own, but seeing your mum die is just awful :(
 
Yeah I'd guess it's that layby too.

Remember coming home from football a year or two before on the A66->A19(S) overpass and saw a Z3 iirc parked up with police surrounding it, A19(N) was completely closed. Turns out a pedestrian had walked out in front of the driver, there is a pedestrian sign there but I've never seen anyone attempt to cross it though!
 
Maybe she was distracted by something. Maybe she suffered a medical incident. Maybe she was arguing with her daughter. Maybe a car to her right swerved towards and she took panicked evasive action. I don't think we can really know.

And the simple fact is, everyone who drives does stupid, or careless, things sometimes. Most of the time nothing happens when we do because there was nothing there, or another driver spotted our muppetry and avoided the incident. It seems perverse to assign complete inability to someone because something went wrong once.

RIP :(
 
Not sure how they managed to do that.

Gf's sister was parked in a layby also on A19 was sat in the car when some other driver supposidly didn't see her went straight into the back of her.

Car was a right off, luckily both were ok, just the odd bruise & whip lash!
 
Could have been anything. Lack of attention, something happened in the car, or something on the road caused the car to swerve (avoiding another car perhaps). I wouldn't jump to the 'thicky' conclusion without more info tbh. Sad news.
 
I once watched (in my rear view mirror) a small 4x4 drive straight into the back of a stopped rotal mail lorry on the exit slip from the A329m into Reading.

No idea how he did not see it. I was first on scene to see the driver out of his car (totally fine?!), and on his phone straight away. No idea what he had been doing at the point of the accident. But he certainly was not looking at the road ahead!!

It just takes a few seconds of not paying attention, and you can be dead..
 
Hi, I think the ratio of HGV's hitting parked cars and killing people in layby's is much much higher. This post suggests someone has issues with lady drivers...
Chris
 
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