FUNNYMAN Dave Spikey has spoken for the first time about his lucky escape from serious injury when a juggernaut shunted his car off the road.

Dave, who became famous after co-writing and starring in Peter's Kay's Phoenix Nights, was travelling south with comedy sidekick Justin Moorhouse when the accident happened on a services sliproad off the A1 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Police said the lorry hit the driver's side of the car, which spun round and hit the truck again before being thrown off the road.

The Chorley comic - Jerry "the Saint" Sinclair in the hit Channel 4 series - was travelling from Chorley to Cambridge with Justin, who plays Young Kenny in the show.

"Justin was in the middle of telling me that he was going to get fit and become a vegetarian like me when we spotted a burger bar and he suddenly changed his mind," said Dave.

"So we stopped off and he ordered the biggest burger he could find before setting off again.

"As we were going down the slip road his mouth was full of burger and he started pointing and looking really, really scared but he couldn't speak.

"We got on to the A1 where this enormous juggernaut just came hurtling up by the side of us and slammed into the car.

"On a serious note we were very, very lucky no-one got hurt because the lorry was just so big."

Dave, speaking from his home in Whittle-le-Woods, said the car was destroyed in the accident, forcing the pair to take a £120 taxi ride to arrive in Cambridge in time for a gig.

But the drama continued the next night when Dave hired a new car to drive to a Swansea gig - and it broke down leaving him stranded.

Hopefully he will get to Chorley in May in time to play two sell-out nights at the Town Hall.