A mother who had to be cut free from her car - together with her teenage son - after it was hit by a foreign lorry is warning other motorists to steer well clear of them.

She now faces a big increase in her insurance premium because, she says, nothing can be done to make the foreign driver accept responsibility for the crash.

Police say the lorry driver didn’t see the car.

Libby Pinkham, who lives at Sydney Road, Walmer, was driving her son Andrew home from Dover Boys’ Grammar School, having collected some GCSE work, when the accident happened at the Whitfield roundabout on Monday last week.

Mrs Pinkham was on the roundabout and heading for the A2 towards Guston and Jubilee Way.

“The lorry was in the left lane coming from Canterbury and at the last minute he pulled out and T-boned me,” said Mrs Pinkham.

“I had nowhere to go and there was nothing I could possibly have done any differently.”

Mrs Pinkham and her son were taken to hospital and released from hospital after treatment.

“We could have been killed,” she said.

Mrs Pinkham’s originally said the lorry driver was in the wrong and would be fined.

“But later we were told the lorry was left-hand drive, the driver was lost and no action would be taken. End of story.

“If these drivers get away with it, as a lot of them seem to do, our premiums go up. We pay the price and the foreign drivers get off scot-free.

“There are signs on the roads out of Dover telling foreign motorists to drive on the left. There ought to also be one telling the lorry drivers to make sure they look in their mirrors.”

A police spokesman told the Mercury that officers had investigated the accident and no action was being taken.

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