A ROAD rage incident in which a Barrow man rammed a motorist on the M6 is set to feature on TV next week.

Bob Horton was driving in the third, colloquially known as the fast, lane southbound on the M6 at Charnock Richards near Leyland when a black Nissan pick-up truck began flashing its lights behind him.

Mr Horton, 62, said the Nissan Frontier appeared to want to overtake but he did not move over because of other cars in the first two lanes.

However, seemingly the Frontier driver's frustration got the better of him and after a dangerous attempt to undertake, he collided with Mr Horton's Peugeot 3008, forcing him to spin and take refuge on the hard shoulder.


Mr Horton, from Clitheroe in Lancashire, captured the incident on a dashcam positioned inside his car.

"I drive a lot of miles for my job, as a control system engineer contractor, and I see a lot of crazy driving, so I'd got the camera put in my car," he told the Evening Mail at the time.

"I saw him coming up behind me at speed, he started aggressively flashing his lights to try and get me to move over but there was traffic at my left. By the time it cleared, he had decided to undertake and ended up ramming into my car."

The Frontier was being driven by 59-year-old Stephen Jack, a self-employed electrical contractor from Barrow who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and failing to stop when he appeared at Preston Crown Court in November.

Jack, of Hawthwaite Lane, was given a six-month custodial sentence, suspended for 12 months, ordered to complete 150 hours community service, pay £295 compensation, £400 costs, an £80 victim surcharge and was banned from driving for 18 months.

Speaking to the Evening Mail after the sentencing, Jack admitted the incident had been a "moment of madness".

"It wasn't a deliberate act on my part to crash into him," the father-of-three said.

"I didn't realise I had hit anyone. At the end of the day, things were quite stressful in my life at the time. My mother-in-law and father-in-law were living with us, they were both dying.

"The decision I made was the wrong one, it was a moment of madness."

The incident, and Mr Horton's footage, is now due to feature in ITV documentary Car Crash Britain: Caught on Camera.

The episode will be shown at 9pm on ITV on Thursday May 4.

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