A trucker told today how he felt "like a sock in a spin cycle" when his lorry jack-knifed on a busy road.

Father-of-two Mark Taylor, 39, admitted he was lucky to be alive after walking away from a crash that blocked the A27, between Lancing and Worthing, for more than four hours.

Still aching and bruised, he described how his 38-ton lorry collided with another vehicle and sent his cab bouncing down the dual carriageway.

The Argus reported yesterday how the cab narrowly missed mother-of-five Yvonne Prosser as she approached the A27 Lyons Farm junction, at Sompting.

Mr Taylor, who has driven lorries for 18 years, was taking a mixed load of goods from Lancing to Littlehampton, at 9.30am on Wednesday, when the impact buckled his lorry and wrenched the cab from its trailer.

He said: "It was like being in a tumble dryer. The trailer went to the left and the cab rolled to the right. I was rolling about inside like a sock in a spin cycle.

"One minute I was seeing the ground, the next it was the barrier, then the sky, then the trees - I was petrified.

"When it happened, I thought: 'This is it, this is the end'. But all the time I was going over and spinning about, all I knew was I was still alive."

The badly-battered cab stopped 3ft from Mrs Prosser's Rover car.

The other truck driver and Mr Taylor were taken to Worthing Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

Police are investigating the incident.