Miracle motorway escape as car gets stuck under bumper of lorry travelling at 60mph

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A lorry sped along a motorway at 60mph completely unaware that a car was trapped sideways under its bumper.

The driver of the Renault Clio appeared to be desperately trying to release the car, pressing his brake lights on and off.

The frightening scene was caught on a mobile phone by passengers in another vehicle on the A1(M) near Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
As they spotted the car caught on the front of the lorry, a voice is heard screaming: 'He hasn't seen it!'

How the Clio came to be caught there, why the lorry driver did not spot it, and how long the motorist was trapped is currently a mystery.

The driver apparently emerged unhurt when the lorry driver eventually stopped.

The Arclid Transport lorry was travelling in the fast lane when it was spotted.

A spokesman for the Cheshire-based haulage firm refused to comment on the matter except to say a probe was underway.
A West Yorkshire police spokesman said they were aware of the footage, which they believed was filmed in January, but had no further details of the incident.

Arclid's website claims the company is the 'UK's leading road haulage and powder haulage company'.

They boast of having the 'highest level of customer service'.

They claim: 'Our service is our strength. We have developed an unsurpassed reputation for delivery where you want it, when you want it - swiftly and safely....'

Plane makes emergency landing on Highway 101, hits three cars

A plane makes an emergency landing on Highway 101, hits three cars and amazingly nobody was hurt.

It happened at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday on the southbound side of Highway 101 near Turnpike and Patterson Roads in Santa Barbara.

Fire officials say there were two people in the Piper Comanche plane and five people in the cars.

One person from one of the vehicles was taken to the hospital as a precaution but was later released.

The California Highway Patrol says the plane was traveling from Temecula to the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport when it lost power.

Officers closed one lane of the highway but things were back up and running by noon.

The Piper Comache 260 carrying a married couple landed on the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 101 just outside Santa Barbara and a few miles from the airport,

The plane's engine quit, and as the pilot descended, he lost control of the plane and landed in the southbound lane facing oncoming traffic. The plane struck two vehicles while landing, then spun and hit another one with its tail.

One vehicle passenger was treated for minor injuries, he said. No other injuries were reported.

The landing happened at 10:36 a.m. (1:36 p.m. ET) and held up traffic for less than two hours,

The pilot told authorities that he attempted to switch fuel lines during the flight, but was unable to restore power to the plane. He said he alerted a tower at the airport that a landing on the highway was imminent, Richardson said




Firefighters attend to a small plane that crashed on U.S. Highway 101 on Sunday. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the Piper PA-24 was bound for Santa Barbara Airport when it made an emergency landing on the southbound side of the freeway


Firefighters attend to a small plane that crashed on U.S. Highway 101 on Sunday. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the Piper PA-24 was bound for Santa Barbara Airport when it made an emergency landing on the southbound side of the freeway.






The pilot of this Piper Comanche ran out of gas and attempted a freeway landing when he was unable to reach the Santa Barbara Airport.


There were only minor injuries when a small plane made a crash landing on southbound Highway 101 south of Patterson Avenue on Sunday morning



The crash left the plane with major damage.



The accident scene, at left, reduced southbound Highway 101 to one lane while northbound traffic came to a standstill



A flatbed truck hauls the wrecked plane off the freeway on to Turnpike Road.

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Nice landing no spark , no crash , even with nose wheel malfunctions.

Taconic State Parkway Horrid accident 8 death plow in oncoming traffic - Husband denies alcoholism in NY wrong-way crash

--Daniel Schuler, right, holds hands with sisters-in-law Jay Schuler, center, and Joyce Schuler, left, while surrounded by reporters during a press conference in Garden City, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Schuler's wife Diane was drunk and high on marijuana when she drove the wrong way for almost two miles on a highway before smashing head-on into an SUV, killing herself and seven others, a prosecutor said. Schuler family attorney Dominic Barbara says 36-year-old Diane Schuler wasn't an alcoholic but was diabetic and may have suffered a stroke before the July 26 crash north of New York City.--




--Daniel Schuler cries while his sister-in-law Jay Schuler speaks at a press conference in Garden City, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Schuler's wife Diane was drunk and high on marijuana when she drove the wrong way for almost two miles on a highway before smashing head-on into an SUV, killing herself and seven others, a prosecutor said. Schuler family attorney Dominic Barbara says 36-year-old Diane Schuler wasn't an alcoholic but was diabetic and may have suffered a stroke before the July 26 crash north of New York City--



--Daniel Schuler's eyes fill with tears during a press conference in Garden City, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Schuler's wife Diane was drunk and high on marijuana when she drove the wrong way for almost two miles on a highway before smashing head-on into an SUV, killing herself and seven others, a prosecutor said. Attorney Dominic Barbara says 36-year-old Diane Schuler wasn't an alcoholic but was diabetic and may have suffered a stroke before the July 26 crash north of New York City. --

She couldn't have been drunk and stoned. Her husband had never seen her intoxicated before. And there were absolutely no marital problems that could have sent her over the edge.

In an anguished, sometimes angry news conference, Daniel Schuler refused to accept an autopsy report that showed his wife had the equivalent of 10 drinks and smoked marijuana within an hour of the wrong-way highway crash that killed her and seven other people.

"I never saw her drunk since the day I met her," Daniel Schuler told reporters at a press conference outside his attorney's office. "She was not a drinker. She was not an alcoholic."

He suggested anything from a stroke to gestational diabetes to even an abscessed tooth could have caused his wife to act irrationally in the hours before her death.

A broken 1.75-liter bottle of Absolut vodka was found in her wrecked minivan, police said.

Family of the men in the SUV had questioned how Schuler's family could have been oblivious to an alcohol abuse problem and suggested criminal charges were possible. An attorney for the victims' family didn't return calls Thursday.

A preliminary autopsy of Diane Schuler ruled out a stroke, heart attack, or aneurysm, Westchester County officials said. The medical examiner said Thursday that he stood by his report that found her blood-alcohol level was more than twice the state's legal limit, she still had undigested alcohol in her stomach, and she had high levels of the key ingredient in marijuana in her system.

Diane Schuler was once diagnosed with gestational diabetes — which usually goes away after childbirth — had an undiagnosed lump on her leg and was suffering from an abscessed tooth for nearly two months. It was not clear how any of those maladies would prompt someone to become intoxicated.

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Fatal crash on the Taconic State Parkway - Leave 8 people die.Authorities are trying to determine how a woman driving a minivan carrying two of her children and three young nieces got onto a suburban parkway heading in the wrong direction, leading to a fiery crash that killed eight people and left a 5-year-old boy severely injured.
The afternoon crash in which the 36-year-old mother, her daughter and nieces died was the second wrong-way crash on the Taconic State Parkway on Sunday. Police also are investigating how a driver in an earlier accident also ended up on the road going against traffic.
The crashes on the parkway north of New York City happened 20 miles apart.
The minivan involved in the fatal crash was traveling south in the northbound lanes when it hit an SUV and then careened into a third vehicle, said state police Investigator Joseph Becerra. The minivan rolled down an embankment and burst into flames.
The minivan's front end appeared to have been almost entirely smashed in, and its shell was scorched and bent. Its driver and four of the five children inside it were killed, Becerra said. They were part of a family from Floral Park and West Babylon, on Long Island.
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