Shocking moment when an Audi driver almost hit car head-on after moving wrong opposite of the road
|This is the moment a young mother and father were nearly involved in a head-on crash after an Audi driver who was ‘glued to his phone’ veered onto the opposite side of the road at 60mph.
Dramatic footage shows the A5 car hurtling towards Matt Brown and Rosie Caink after drifting onto the wrong side of the road on a busy dual carriageway.
Incredibly, the beauty therapist and her boyfriend managed to avoid being hit after Mr Brown, 22, swerved at the last minute.
But Ms Caink, 20, said the pair were left terrified by the incident and had to pull over at the side of the road in to recover from the shock.
She said the driver – a man in his 20s with a personalised licence plate – was clearly on his phone and had only looked up seconds before the near miss, but sped off without stopping.
‘He had his head down and he didn’t look at the road once – he was 100 per cent looking at his phone,’ she said.
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‘He was completely oblivious about heading into oncoming traffic and made no attempt to swerve whatsoever.
‘If Matt hadn’t swerved when he did, the outcome could have been extremely different.’
Ms Caink and Mr Brown have a one-year-old daughter and the young mother said she was ‘relieved’ she was not with them in the vehicle.
‘That just doesn’t even bear thinking about,’ she said. ‘It shows how much looking at your phone takes your concentration away.
‘A head-on collision could have had terrible consequences. I’m still in shock to be honest.’
The couple were driving at 30mph through Bradford in their Fiat 500 when they caught the terrifying footage on their dashcam.
After the couple pulled over, a woman who had been driving behind the Audi stopped to ask them if they were alright.
In March, the penalty for being caught using a mobile phone while driving doubled to six penalty points and a £200 fine.
Source: STEPH COCKROFT / DailyMail.co.uk