THIS is the shocking moment a dopey motorist is filmed driving directly into oncoming traffic on a dual carriageway.
The driver was caught on the dashcam of a fellow road user, who rounded a corner on the 50mph road on Sunday to be met head-on by the offending vehicle.
Alleged to have taken place on the A24 near Dorking, Surrey, the filming car was forced to swerve to avoid the collision, with the driver being left shaken by the near miss.
The video shows the car with the dashcam cruising along the road and approaching a corner when a pair of headlights suddenly appear.
Slowing as the headlights draw nearer, the driver doesn’t seem to realise until the last moment that they are on course for a head-on collision.
The two cars both slam their brakes and swerve as they come within feet of smashing into one another.
Both motorists are left shaken but the oblivious driver using the wrong side of the dual carriageway carries on their journey as if nothing is wrong.
The driver of the car with the dashcam claims to have pulled over and called the police following the incident.
In the video footage a second car follows the motorist with the dashcam and is also forced to swerve and slam its brakes to avoid smashing into the back of the recording car.
The harrowing video footage of the close call was shared to social media yesterday with the caption: “Encountered someone driving on the wrong side of a dual carriageway the other day.
“A little bit scary at the time. Luckily only a 50mph stretch, the dashcam doesn’t do justice to how close they really were.”
The footage of the terrifying near-crash has received over 150 likes and dozens of comments from users on social media left stunned by the dopey driver.
One user said: “And your perfect swerve means that the geriatric driver can continue to drive and probably doesn’t even realise how dangerous that situation was.
“Absolutely no reason to retest old people as long as other drivers can swerve in time.”
Another added: “This isn’t a surprise. Something like 20% of road users in the UK were taught outside the UK where quality of lessons is negligible at best.”
A third wrote: “More worrying is why they would just keep driving when two cars are coming towards them.”
Another replied: “That road looks confusing. [At] First I thought you were driving on the wrong side.”
