Motoway accidents (sorry pc slipped then - collisions) of this nature are relatively quite common. Foreign LGV changing lanes, unable to see a vehicle immediately alongside the tractor unit on the opposite side of the vehicle to the driver due to the limited view from their mirrors, although most should have an additional downwards mirror purely for this purpose. The vehicle they strike is usually positioned just forwards of the tractor unit, resulting in the vehicle then turning across the front and being shunted for as far as it takes for the LGV driver to realise what's happened. This happens regularly at merging motorway junctions with UK truck drivers, where they find themselves in lanes 3 for example where the motorways merge, and then begin to move back towards lane 1. In these cases you have to question why any driver would chance going up the near side of a LCV which obviously is likely to be moving back to lane 2 then 1. A common place for this type of RTC is the M6 Southbound at Broughton, just north of Preston where the M55 joins the M6. Vehicles travelling south from Lancaster in lane 1 suddenly find themselves in lane 3 where they merge. LCV's have to then move back to the new lane 1 with faster moving cars coming up on their near side.
In this case today, the driver of the car seems to be totally innocent in his actions, although the moral of this story could be to always be wary when passing up the side of a goods vehicle with the steering wheel on the wrong side! The foreign driver having had a drink or three had obviously severely impaired his judgement and he needs stringing up for that alone, but some still think that the drink driving laws don't apply to them....