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Another heart-stopping moment.
May. 22nd, 2009 11:34 amI've just remembered an occasion which didn't in fact end in an accident, no thanks to the sodding tanker-driver.
Driving along the same road where I had the previous accident I mentioned, and slowing down (fortunately) for the hamlet, I saw a milk tanker ponderously turning out of a side road. He can't possibly have looked properly to see if anyone was coming, because there was a straight road for about 100 yards.
I slammed on the anchors, including the hand brake, and did a 180° turn, missing the tanker by about 15 inches.
The poor driver completely went to pieces, because he saw a disassembled cot in the back of the car and thought he had almost hit a Young Mother and maybe a baby. He kept saying "Is the bairn all right?", which rather stumped me, until I realised he'd seen the cot, which I was returning to a friend after borrowing it to put up another friend and her son for a week.
Then he kept saying "It's lucky you're such a good driver", when I had no more idea of how I'd achieved the turn than the baby who had used the cot would have done! The poor chap was totally unnerved.
Funnily enough, I never saw a tanker turn out of that road again in another four years.
Driving along the same road where I had the previous accident I mentioned, and slowing down (fortunately) for the hamlet, I saw a milk tanker ponderously turning out of a side road. He can't possibly have looked properly to see if anyone was coming, because there was a straight road for about 100 yards.
I slammed on the anchors, including the hand brake, and did a 180° turn, missing the tanker by about 15 inches.
The poor driver completely went to pieces, because he saw a disassembled cot in the back of the car and thought he had almost hit a Young Mother and maybe a baby. He kept saying "Is the bairn all right?", which rather stumped me, until I realised he'd seen the cot, which I was returning to a friend after borrowing it to put up another friend and her son for a week.
Then he kept saying "It's lucky you're such a good driver", when I had no more idea of how I'd achieved the turn than the baby who had used the cot would have done! The poor chap was totally unnerved.
Funnily enough, I never saw a tanker turn out of that road again in another four years.
