A road-rage lorry driver has been captured on a dashcam ramming a terrified motorist on a busy motorway.
Matthew Stockdale, 46, was driving home from visiting his mother when the ten tonne HGV came up behind him in the middle lane of the M1 blasting its horn.
Despite calling police six times from his mobile phone during the high-speed attack, police took three hours to respond after he got bounced between three forces.
Mr Stockdale says he was “deliberately and repeatedly rammed” by a lorry and criticised police for failing to respond to his calls for three hours.
He said he made six 999 calls and was connected to three police forces.
“I honestly thought I was going to die,” he wrote in a police statement.
“My life literally rushed before my eyes. Whilst that sounds dramatic, I can honestly say I have never felt fear like it. I began shaking uncontrollably.”
Mr Stockdale then called 999 and was connected to Northamptonshire Police. After the second incident, he was connected to Thames Valley and then Bedfordshire Police.
Despite assurances from all three forces that help was on the way, he said no-one arrived.
Mr Stockdale, who runs a dashcam company, followed the lorry to a depot in Dunstable where an ambulance took him to hospital with neck and shoulder pain.
Bedfordshire Police had called the paramedics and one of its officers arrived at the hospital nearly three hours after the first call was made.
Liability for the car damage has been accepted by the firm’s insurers.
Police have now apologised for failing to respond more quickly to Matthew’s 999 calls.