Watch as cars forced to swerve as driver speeds the wrong way down busy dual carriageway on Boxing Day
THIS is the dramatic moment drivers had to swerve out of the way of a motorist speeding the wrong way up a dual carriageway.
Multiple cars were forced to dodge the vehicle to avoid a head-on collision as it zoomed towards oncoming traffic along the A303 near Andover, Hampshire.
Holidaymaker Nick Hodges was driving back home to Devon from Heathrow at about 6.50pm on Boxing Day when they encountered the rogue vehicle.
The couple and other motorists narrowly avoided crashing as they frantically diverted into the next lane.
Mr Hodges told the Salisbury Journal: “Going past the last Andover junction there was this terrifying moment as my wife and I both realised that the lights ahead weren’t coming from the opposite carriageway.
“I slammed on the brakes and veered to the left which sent the car into a skid but fortunately stability control kicked in and I managed to correct it.
“I’m so glad it wasn’t raining and that the lane next to me was empty – we’d only just passed a few cars so it could easily have been a disaster.”
Other drivers who passed the vehicle branded the motorist “incredibly dangerous”.
One social media user tweeted: “I have just spent a lovely day with my daughter and granddaughter but I nearly didn’t make it home.
“Passing Andover on the A303 I encountered a car driving the wrong way down my carriageway.
“Thankfully I was in light traffic at the time. It must have caused an accident later.”
Another wrote: “I also went past this car last night.
“I was in the inside lane at the time, so did not have to swerve to avoid it, but it looked like a fatal accident waiting to happen. Incredibly dangerous.”
It comes after shocking footage showed the moment a van was seen blasting along the fast lane of a motorway on the wrong side in Norfolk.