Drivers Lucky Escape

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 25 Apr 2008, 14:00

Driverâ€™s lucky escape
Apr 25 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A ROYAL Mail van was shunted through a wall in a crash on a country road.

The van careered through the wall and down a steep slope, on Elland Road, Greetland, before it was stopped by saplings from going any further.

But the trees pushed the doors in so the driver could not escape.

Elland firefighters cut some of the trees down to help the driver out.

Miraculously he was unhurt in the crash which also involved a BMW car.

Crew manager Frank Van Rooyen from Elland fire station said: â€œHe was a very lucky bloke. The van was pushed through a wall, down a steep gradient and into a copse of saplings.

â€œThe front was in the trees and the back wheels and axle were on the wall.â€™â€™
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-we ... -20818768/

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 25 Apr 2008, 14:47

Good find k66yla thats my local rag but the driver is from Halifax DO.

greynut · Post by **greynut** » 25 Apr 2008, 15:02

We have a driver at our place who is basically a lunatic.

He smashed his van up stating the reason as:

" I swerved to avoid a pine tree, and then another and another untill I finally crashed off the road."

We realised a little later that he had tried to avoid his air freshner.

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 25 Apr 2008, 18:18

greynut wrote:We have a driver at our place who is basically a lunatic.

He smashed his van up stating the reason as:

" I swerved to avoid a pine tree, and then another and another untill I finally crashed off the road."

We realised a little later that he had tried to avoid his air freshner.