‘Stupid little checklist’ may prove a lifesaver for surgeons or truck-drivers

IT IS very funny and it gave me nightmares.

It may be footage of something that really happened or it may not, but the fuzzy clip someone is now busily removing from websites appears to show a vast articulated truck lashing along a British motorway near Wetherby with a car stuck to its front bumper. The car is a Clio, evidently hit and picked up by the truck.

The footage went from funny to nightmare when someone who knows these things pointed out that the car’s tyres seemed to be in contact with the roadway while the truck proceeded, which, it was explained to me, could cause the car to flip. Or, as the tyres wore down, putting the metal wheel frame in contact with the road, could cause sparks, explosion and fire. Horror stuff.