THIS is the bone-chilling moment a family car was forced off the road by a coach moments before the gloating driver gave them a THUMBS UP.
Gary Davis, 58, was on his way back from his daughter’s wedding dress fitting when he noticed the 19 tonne bus driving erratically.
The SunGary Davis was pushed up against the hard shoulder by a coach – only for the bus driver to give him a thumbs up[/caption]
The SunThe family said they were inches from death[/caption]
Within seconds the Berrys coach lurched across two lanes of the M5 – leaving Gary, his wife, daughter and her fiancee inches from death at 50mph.
The retiree, from Somerset, told The Sun: “The coach was in the middle lane and had been cut up by a white Mercedes.
“The driver was probably distracted and annoyed, it looked to me like it was road rage, bit of red mist.
“They didn’t remain professional, it then swapped lanes and kept coming across.”
Gary found himself pushed closer and closer to the hard shoulder as he tried to remain calm amid the chaos in Portishead, Somerset last Friday.
He then tried get ahead of the coach but the driver simply didn’t slow down.
He explained: “My daughter’s screaming in the back that the hard shoulder was finishing.
“I held my speed and stayed with the coach hoping I wasn’t going to go onto the hard shoulder.
“If she [coach driver] had clipped my back end I’m going straight across the carriageways.
“I got my nose in front of the coach and got eye contact with the driver.”
Left with no other choice, Gary floored it and managed to get out a tussle and his future son in law got snap of the coach driver.
His VW Touareg escaped unharmed.
But they were gobsmacked when they saw the woman grinning back at them with her thumbs up.
Gary said: “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
“She’s giving us the thumbs up but not letting us in.”
Reflecting on the horror, the 58-year-old reckons because the coach the empty, the driver thought they could “do what they wanted.
“You just never know with something that size”, he said.
The Sun has approached Berrys Coaches for comment who say they are investigating the incident.