When HGV driver Mark Fowler was returning to base he slowed down for a junction only to have a cement mixer plough straight into him. And it emerged the driver of the 18-tonne cement mixer, Daniel Summerfield, was distracted as he was on his mobile phone.
Summerfield was too late to avoid a stationary vehicle in front of him as he drove on the A403 on December 22, 2020, and swerved around it straight into the path of Mr Fowler. Mr Fowler, 54, from Patchway, was seriously hurt in the smash and hasn't worked since.
He told Bristol Live: "It happened in a 100th of a second. There was a road sweeper turning. All of a sudden the HGV was there and through my cab. It is lucky he hit my lorry and not a family of four in a saloon - he would have driven over it and taken their heads off."
