TWO SCRAPES

Yesterday I scraped 2 cars on roundabouts in my lorry.

The first scrape was caused by a car driving erratically on the rundabout of the junction between the M25 and A13. I had exited A13 from the east to go M25 north. First the red Mercedes in question blocked my lane by trying to move into another lane containing stationary traffic. Having successfully moved into the middle lane of 3 lanes on a roundabout it decided, with out warning, to cut back into the lane I was in which is when it caught my nearside front bumper and his offside rear wing. I was then accused of driving into him when it was clear from the damaged sustained was caused by his poor lane discipline and erratic driving. I remained in the correct lane at all times; M25 N.

A13 W M25 N M25 N

The second scrape was slightly worse on J of the M5. I was exiting the motorway southbound onto the roundabout. The small red car in question was coming round the roundabout. I judged that I had time to enter the roundabout and for the car to either follow me around or move to the nearside lane which I assumed he needed to be on to exit the roundabout to M5 south beacuse he was coming from the Clevedon direction and there was no other exit on the roundabout. The next thing I saw was him in my offside mirror on my offside between my lorry and the central area of the roundabout. My offside rear of the trailer caught his nearside door and mirror.