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@BrickMan
honestly don't think people really understand just how little of a fuck truck drivers give to what they can see, and even less to what they don't!! Undertaking is not correct and certainly not up inside something that will run you over without the driver even realising, people need to wake the fuck up.
Up in in the middle of nowhere people often do the same, but in cars, they cut up, cut in, undertake, dodgy overtake and pull out in front of 42t+ of fast moving steel expecting the truck to just dissapear off the road.
Recently 2 young girls (18/19) were killed outright when they pulled out at 0mph into the path of a 18t royal mail unibody in a ford ka. The truck was doing the limit of only 40mph and even then, there wasn't much of either of them left, I think they had pulled out so late that the truck hadn't even begin to brake until after it had hit them (not truck driver error).
Also 2 young lads (brothers of <20) were killed in the snow and ice of janurary on an icebound (barely passible to car traffic) a road a few miles from here. An old 50 seat coach hit them as they wobbled from the hard shoulder area into the path of the coach. Coach driver was found at fault too as he was driving 40mph+ on an icebound road that even a normal modern road car should have only been doing safely half that.
not quite in the same league but I was nearly erased from the road a few weekends back, riding along a normally quiet seaside road an old granny who could barely see over the wheel cut in on me so closely her wing mirror grazed over the top of my bars, she then clipped a bit of hedge, then carried on, regardless.