This was the terrifying moment a lorry driver was temporarily blinded by a large splash of water in busy traffic while driving down a motorway yesterday (January 17).<br /><br />The incident took place between junction 7 and 8 on the M25 (anti-clockwise) as the driver was in the middle lane attempting to overtake another heavy goods vehicle with a trailer.<br /><br />As the driver increases speed to overtake the lorry in the left-hand lane, a large gush of water is swept up its tyres and completely covers the windscreen of the middle lane driver. <br /><br />He immediately slows down in a terrifying moment of panic that could have resulted in a pile-up.<br /><br />The driver, John Mitchell, told Newsflare: "I was driving between junction 7 and 8 on the M25 anticlockwise, a route I take every day but this day it had been raining heavily so the road was soaking which made it hard to see puddles.<br /><br />"A truck to my left just in front couldn't have seen the puddle so I wasn't annoyed or bothered, it just caught me by surprise. <br /><br />"I saw a load of water come up from the road and come straight for me. <br /><br />"Even though I was behind a screen it still made me try to dodge the water. <br /><br />"Luckily I was already going in an almost straight line so when I couldn't see a thing I knew I had to keep the steering wheel straight and lay off the throttle just in case. <br /><br />"We don't normally get loads of surface water like that because of the constant flow of traffic not giving a chance for puddles to form."
