article_snippet.sent: The dramatic moment was captured on dash cam by the HGV driver that Motorist had tried to overtake .
article_snippet.sent: The moment was captured on camera by a dash cam fitted to the cab of 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry.
article_snippet.sent: 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry had been slowly accelerating 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry to nearly 30mph when the collision happened and managed to perform an emergency stop inside just 20 yards.
article_snippet.sent: But 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry appeared to misjudge the gap and collided with the front of 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry's cab .
article_snippet.sent: 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry swerved in front of the truck the truck and 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry whiplashed into a lamppost, smashing the rear into smithereens and spilling the contents across the road.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Townley, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, who has been an HGV driver for 24 years, said 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry was so shaken by the accident
article_snippet.sent: 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry had difficulty sleeping that night.
article_snippet.sent: 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry said: 'I was stopped at the lights and there was one car by the side of 49-year-old Mr Townley's lorry, the red one. '
article_snippet.sent: The lorry driver, Nick Townley, was so shaken by the accident he had difficulty sleeping that night a box van behind me which had been there from the time just after I came off the M5 that night .
article_snippet.sent: No one is thought to have been seriously injured in the crash.
highlights_snippet.sent: Nick Townley, 49, who was driving lorry, captured moment on dash cam .