fishtank wrote:So....tell us how it happened Jim...
Driving into work, going through a series of bends at 60 ( the road's got national speed limit, and those bends can be done at 60, just one or two are more fun at that speed ), my mind was elsewhere ( on A/L early ) & I notice I've edged into the oncoming lane, so I gave the wheel a good yank to correct....it was too good, so I correct that, then correct the correction, then correct the correction of the original correction ( each time the yawing across the longtitudinal axis is getting more extreme....the fishtailing was getting worse ) until the point I distinctly remember drifting sideways along the road, immediately before the Point of ESA ( Earth, Sky Ambulance ).
Then it was "...!!!....BOLLOCKS!!! I can't dump the missus up at her sister's tomorrow...where's the light switch?....turn the bloody radio off, I ain't listenting to it now....right, 'ere's the door handle...cock it, it won't open...who put them bushes and trees there in the way?....ok, other side...bit stiff, some bugger needs to come along and cut this grass, the bloody door is dragging on it....right that's it, I'm out, where's me fag? Oh it's ok, I still got it & it's still lit...."
After that, the van driver I'd passed a minute before had caught up, pulled over and run back to help me out, he almost dragged me to sit in his van and keep an eye on me, while his china whistled up the paramedics & the rozzers.....the observant amongts you may have noticed I made no mention of being trapped in my seat belt, well that's cos I didn't want to be in that position, so I weren't wearing it
the ambo turned up, and I told them what happened & they said, "You're probably kosher, but we gotta be sure & get your neck in a collar & your arse on a spine board." Never having had the "pleasure" before I said no bother
( I got worse back pain from the board than I got in my neck from the flip ). Then the gavvers rolled up, I repeated the story, gave a breath test ( result? "zero" ), they did their archetypal "wag the finger at the naughty schoolboy" routine ( even the paramedics called them supercillious tits later ), but said as I'd caused no damage to thrid parties or private property & probably left my car UDF, chances were they were going to let it slide.
Apart from pics of the car ( so far, none....yet ) and of myself ( two on the spine board
), that's pretty much the story
