Milk driver escapes death by seconds
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• Milk Marque tanker driver Brian Quinn narrowly escaped death last week when a 10ft steel milk loading tube skewered his driver's chair—just as he leant over to open the tanker's passenger window.
The hose was forced through his cab and out of the windscreen when a van crashed into his tanker while he parked on the hard shoulder of the M5 following a blow out.
His company, Dairy Products Transport, had fitted the steel pipe because the glass-fibre sheaths previously used were vulnerable to attacks by animal rights protesters.
Quinn says he leaned over to open the passenger window for some fresh air when he couldn't open the driver's window.
Seconds later he remembers a bang as the force of the van's impact threw him out of the passenger door. He only realised how close he had come to death when he saw the seveninch hole punched through the jacket he had slung over the drivers seat.
The van driver was shocked but unharmed.