After footage emerged late last week of a B-double travelling dangerously in the Adelaide Hills and narrowly avoiding multiple oncoming cars, new dashcam footage has been released showing the woman who confronted him and took the keys.
The driver was a 34-year-old Victorian man, travelling off-route on North East Road, Chain of Ponds.
Adelaide Hills mother Carly Atkinson was travelling behind the truck with her 8-year-old daughter in the back seat. She captured the incident on her dashcam.
“I thought an accident was imminent,” she told 7NEWS. “I needed to stop this person from killing someone.”
After alerting police, she flagged down the driver on the approach to an intersection. Carly ran to the truck and spoke with the driver.
“I got to the truck and asked if he was ok,” she revealed to 7NEWS.
“He said ‘I’m just a little lost’ so I asked him to turn the truck off so I could hear him properly.
“As soon as he turned the truck off, I opened the door and said he was driving dangerously, and needed to hand me the keys.”
7NEWS reports that Carly took the drivers keys and logbook and handed them to police.
When Big Rigs contacted South Australian Police (SAPOL), they confirmed that the driver tested positive to cannabis and methamphetamine and was given an immediate 24-hour direction not to drive.
The driver also lost his licence for 3 months and was found to have minor work diary breaches.
At no point am I defending a drugged or drunk drive but…
But this lad, when the door opened took the keys but this’d be hard when the keys for a Spice-Grinder are on the left of the steering column.
Added to this, her taking the drivers log-book would deem that book now null and void in a court of law as she is not an authorised officer of the law and taking he book does not change antything.