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A British haulage firm opened an investigation today after a video emerged that appeared to show a lorry driver speeding along a motorway unaware a car was trapped under its bumper.

The mobile phone footage shows an lorry travelling in the fast lane on the A1 near Wetherby, west Yorkshire, with a blue Renault Clio trapped sideways under its bumper.