Horrifying dash cam footage from inside a police car as it was crushed on the A1 has been released by officers.
We told how officers from Police Scotland rushed to the A1, between Haddington and Dunbar , yesterday morning at around 7.45am after a HGV was blown over.
After arriving at the scene the car stopped on the carriageway, however as another lorry passed, with care, it was blown on its side and on to the cop car as it sat stationary.
A Road Patrol Sergeant was sitting in the vehicle at the time and thankfully escaped serious injury, as did the lorry driver.
Sergeant John Easton from Police Scotland’s Road Policing Unit said: “When I got to the scene, I jumped out the car, went across to check on the driver from the first lorry to make sure that he was ok, and he was already in another vehicle with one of our support drivers, so I said to them they needed to get off the bridge as it was too dangerous.
“As I struggled trying to get back to my car I had to hold onto the lorry to try and pull myself around. I had to get back into my car to then contact our control room and Traffic Scotland to close the bridge and the road.
“That’s at which point as I was speaking on the radio that the lorry started to fall over onto my car.
"As it happens, my favourite car in the RPU fleet.
“I took a deep breath, got out, and checked that the driver of the lorry that had hit my vehicle was ok before radioing for more assistance.
"Colleagues quickly arrived to help at the scene and we closed the road at the bridge.
“It could have been much worse but fortunately I walked away unscathed. I certainly won’t forget why it’s called the ‘Windy Bridge’ now.”
