Was on my way home last nite at 9ish, just dropped my kids off in derbyshire.

 

Off the A1 onto the A19, loads of spray/rain etc. Me, in my volvo, and another driver in new Saab estate. We were doing 70ish, hes in front, just as we come around a shallow bend i barely notice hazards flashing in the distance - as we get real close we realise someone has stopped in one of the 2 lanes on the A19 :headvswal :headvswal

 

Unfortunately the Saab hit it at 70 ishmph and blew his car and parts all over the carraigeway - I swerved and smashed into the parts and it blew my front tyres out at 70mph, I finally managed to get the car to a halt 300 metres away from impact.

 

The Saabs passenger wing, bonnet, wheel etc was embedded in to the passenger side of the car - a total right off.

 

We went up to look at the other car.

 

It was a fiesta. It was hit so hard it knocked it clean of the A19 and right up the inclines at the side.

 

Inside it was an old lady :cry: It took 2 hrs to cut her out of the wreckage, the car was mashed. Apparently she just pulled over and stopped - no one knows why, but she was in a bad way when the ambulance carted her off.

 

All the while bloody great trucks are thundering past with debris on the road that caused my blow out, when the cops arrived the traffic slowed down :xxx:

 

She was fooking lucky a truck didnt hit her - she would not have made it.

 

The worst thing about the whole accident was that where she stopped was a hump back bend......where I stopped (300 metres away) was a slip road :mad:

 

Luckily the saab driver was ok, his car was totalled - he managed to get his off the road and parked near mine.

 

I was totally caught off guard with the accident. I saw the hazards, so I kept looking at them.....all of a sudden when you are soooo close you realise they're not off the carraigeway......bang :( too late.

 

I think I was very lucky last nite :(

 

It may sound cruel but the old lady got the rewards for her stupidity. She could have easily got her car of the road, theres a verge right along the road large enought o drive on.

 

I truly have no sympathy...she could have killed someone. If a truck would have clouted her, along with the volume of traffic - it would have been a real tradegy and ALL her fault :mad:

 

That aside...I do hope she recovers.....and gets banned for being so careless.

 

I finally get home at 11.30 after changing my tyres in the p*ss*ng rain for 2 1/2 hrs :headvswal

assume nothing until you have driver a's version driver b's version and the truth;)

 

Well said m8....lucky I was driver C.

 

I dont know why she stopped or why he hit her - prob never gonna know.

 

All we can do is drive as best we can and hope we dont get involved in an accident.

Fook, are ya still :rolleyes: going on about this?

the old dear would like to put her views across, i think it only fair she defends herself!!

 

:) :) :) nice one flzgirl.

 

 

Yep were still rattling on about it Kim....were all just getting to know one another :)

Bloody hell...Do you have a wife g/friend, mates you could talk to?

Must taken ages to type all that!? Caps lock too!!! :D

 

Glad to 'read' your ok dude.

 

;-)

only a few weeks ago was there a post about someone putting their z through a hedge because of no ones fault but their own. dont remember one negative post. all were saying unlucky and hope your ok....

 

thats me :wack:

 

....you forgot to add the next bit....

do you have xxx part for sale now...can i have 1st dibs :D :D

 

back on topic marc...this morning in the same place i lost my rear end and went off the road there was a 6 x 8 ft piece of flat plywood in the road..obviously flipped off the back of a truck..i saw it just at the last second...and just avoided doing the same thing again...someone has it in for me up there...!!

Glad u ok too m8 :)

 

Stuff just happens out there that we have no control over.....all except the fat controller up top :D