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Originally Posted by robertdavey6

The obvious suggestion is that he couldn't swerve out, in to lane 2, due to overtaking traffic. So he tried to go up the hard shoulder, to avoid it.
Another possibility is that he was foreign and more used to a LHD vehicle. In which case, I think the instinct would be to swerve left, rather than right/ I do know that F.W. do employ some Polish drivers but, I don't think we know if this was one of them.

The deceased driver was a 65 year-old from Wells, Somerset.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17521889