A MOTHER-of-two today said she felt lucky to be alive after surviving an horrific motorway crash.

Belinda Clarke, 44, of Eclipse Road, Feniscowles, Blackburn, spoke out about her ordeal in a bid to highlight a flaw' in the law about left-hand drive lorries.

Mrs Clarke was driving along the M6 near junction 14 in Stafford at around 55mph when a lorry on the inside lane started to pull over directly into her in the middle lane.The lorry clipped the back left of her car, sending her spinning out of control and in front of the lorry.

Mrs Clarke's Citroen Zara was pushed along until the lorry's brakes were able to bring the vehicles to a halt.

She was left with cuts, bruises and an back injury which was being investigated by medical specialists following the crash, on Sunday May 21.

Mrs Clarke said: "I could smell the burning of rubber and screeching of his brakes.

"It happened very quickly.

"For some reason I didn't think I was going to die. I just thought when is this going to stop?'.

"I'm not sure how I wasn't more seriously injured.

"I kept thinking what I was going to say to the driver when I got out of the car."

But when the vehicles came to a halt and she was able to speak to the driver she said she was stunned by his response.

She said he apologised and said he was from Spain and that his lorry was a left-hand drive so he could not see the blind spot on the right hand side.

Mrs Clarke, who works for Network Marketing from home, said: "I could not believe it. I feel so strong about it because what happened to me could have been avoided.

"I am going to write to Tony Blair about it.

"I cannot believe that the government lets these types of vehicles on the road without mirrors so they can see the blind spot."

Sergeant Keith Jackson, of Staffordshire motorway police, said: "We get three of four of incidents like this a day.

"My advice would be don't drive alongside them, overtake them so you are not in their path.

"There is a campaign at the moment to make it illegal for them not to have blind spot mirrors.

"Some have even installed CCTV so they can see the blind spot on a screen."