silver-sub

^Qwerty^

Van for deliberately causing an accident. I've watched loads of those HGV Dash Cam posts and it's shocking the amount of people who 'brake' test a lorry. Anyone doing it should be charged with dangerous driving.

silver-sub

Would you say the HGV was lane hogging?

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

No.
Van moves up INSIDE him.
Dangerous driving, right there.

^Qwerty^

You never know what fully went on from a video, but it looks to me like both lorries pull out to overtake the van. The first lorry gets past. I can only think that one of two things then happened, 1) the van increased it's speed and thus prevented the lorry from completing the overtake, or pulling back in without slowing down or 2) the lorry slowed down to sit alongside the van.

From the driving I've done, lorries tend to keep a pretty good consistent speed, hence the 7 mile overtake manoeuvres as one overtakes the other at 0.01 mph difference. Car and van drivers are all over the place; anyone with cruise control will know this.

Regardless, lane hogging is one thing, inconsiderate and poor road manners; braking in front of another vehicle is something else.

dpb

The 2nd lorry will have wanted to be straight up the chuff of the other one !

The van driver could have just zoomed off under 2nd lorry , he was just being a dick

Torquemada

The van for sure, no matter what else happened. Brake-checking anyone is daft, especially doing it to an HGV, what did the guy expect to happen??

Dr Hu

My guess - the white van got bored of being in lane 1
If the white van had slowed to let the other big truck pull over, he could then have overtaken, however it seems he speed matched the truck getting more and more irate, undertook, flicked him the bird, got what he deserved...