The terrifying moment a family hatchback crashed into a lorry at 50mph and was shunted along the carriageway for 100 yards has been captured on camera.
A dashboard camera mounted in the truck filmed the Honda Civic as it attempted to pull onto the M25 between two lorries.
But the driver badly misjudged the space between them and clipped the front wing of the rear lorry - causing the car to flip sideways and parallel to the lorry’s front grille.
Despite the perilous situation, the lorry driver calmly brought his vehicle and the Honda safely to a standstill on the hard shoulder.
No one was seriously injured with news of the crash only emerging after the driver of the Civic filed a whiplash claim.
He was blaming the lorry driver for the crash - but the trucker had a SmartWitness camera fitted to his dashboard which filmed the whole incident.
The video proved the Honda driver was responsible and his claim against the HGV driver’s insurance was thrown out.
It was one of 550,000 whiplash claims filed last year, with insurance experts estimating around 60 per cent are bogus.
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