This Is What Happens When You Put Yourself In A Trucker's Blind Spot

When a Toyota Yaris decides to plonk itself directly in the way of a lorry at a busy junction, right in the driver’s blind spot, there’s only one outcome to expect: smashed glass and twisted metal.

There’s a lot of debate around on the Internet about who’s to blame for this, but we think it’s pretty clear-cut. The Yaris drives down the left-hand side of the lorry, whose driver had left space to allow his trailer to make the turn without hitting the inside kerb. When you’re driving one of those, going wider into the turn and straightening up sooner makes it easier to get on the gas and get up to speed. The Yaris driver simply isn’t using their brain and places their car right where the trucker can’t see it.

Then, after undertaking the lorry, the idiot Yaris driver doesn’t even pull away when the road is clear and the lorry starts to go. The car just sits there until it’s crunched by the side of the truck and dragged a short distance down the road. What on earth were they thinking? It’s a total facepalm moment.

It’s fair to say that the lorry driver could have seen the Yaris if he’d been looking in that direction as the car appeared ahead of him, but naturally he would have been looking over his right shoulder towards the oncoming traffic. It’s also fair to say that the huge blind spots truckers have to deal with are a major problem. They shouldn’t really be negotiating traffic when they can’t see half of the road around them, but technology is beginning to fix that. As for hopeless supermini drivers… well, good luck fixing them.