A truck driver who, faced with a cyclist's sudden and unheralded movement from a breakdown lane onto a carriageway, reacts by heavy braking and steering away from the cyclist does not act negligently merely because, with the benefit of hindsight, an alternative course of action would have avoided the collision. The agony of the moment principle applies where the emergency was not of the driver's making and the response was that of a reasonably prudent driver in the circumstances.
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