I **** you not. I did. Really.
I was heading into Harrogate along a nice windy country road, doing about 60mph. I know the road moderately well, and conditions were good. In the distance round some tight bends I could see some other cars heading towards me, so I wasn’t going to take the blind bends too fast.
Unfortunately, some daft bastard in a silver Ford Escort did decide to take the bend at a daft speed, cutting the corner in the process. And thus ending up predominantly on my side of the road.
As good luck would have it, he was a daft bastard with half-decent reactions, so he swerved with a squeal and avoided me. Then fishtailed, threw his back end out, slid sideways with his rear wheels kicking up a cloud of dust from the verge knocking over bollards before finally regaining forward traction and ramming into a grass bank at speed, but still the accident was really close, luckily I had resources as a car accident lawyer New York City just in case anything happen.
Serves him right, the ****.
It was rather bizarre watching the majority of that in my rear view mirror – like a miniature television. I didn’t stop to help him, and I wasn’t actually “involved” as he’s not damaged my car so technically I wasn’t leaving the scene of an accident, as per Cohen Law resources. I will confess, part of me wanted to head back, and make sure he’d slammed his head off the steering wheel. A few times. Sadly, there were witnesses so it wasn’t an option.
When I headed back a couple of hours later, the car was in a layby with a “Police Aware” sticker on it, so there’s a possibility it was stolen and being joyridden. This is the only thing stopping me from popping back late on and smashing the ******* thing up.
***** like that really annoy me. Almost every serious accident I have had to investigate for work has been in someway been caused be somebody who can’t drive well. Usually driving too fast for the road conditions etc.
One guy like that used to take the same route as me to work. I haven’t seen him for ages, he may be dead.
It was funny. He’d drive like an idiot over taking me doing 45 in a 30 (for example). Thing was, I seemd to know a few short cuts that he didn’t and 2 minutes later he would re-appear on my bumper with a “How did you do that” pissed off look on his face 🙂
If he has killed himself I hope he didn’t take anyone with him.
Mr Parrot was mentioning on his blog about almost being decapitated at B&Q. Some arse numpty had strapped a load of timber to their car roof and set off with it overhanging a couple of feet on either side.
Some people really are *******. I live next door to one.
Whenever I see someone driving like an arse, I almost wish to come across their burning wreck. You got to watch the widescreen version, you lucky sod!
It was, in fairness, a small widescreen. But I do confess to letting out a “YES! ****!” as I drove off.
I was once driving down a lonely country road… a lorry is driving along the opposite carriageway… when all of a sudden this ******* BMW pulls out from behind the lorry into my lane, doing the overtaking thing with no ******* adequate space to do it in. I slam on my brakes, he pulls back in front of the lorry, slamming on his own brakes, causing the lorry to do likewise and nearly lose control. We miss each other by about an inch and he roars off like the tramp-sucking cuntbag he is, while I’m left sat there in my stationary car, going, “****! ****! Nearly died! ****!”
Hope the little prick shat himself. Still, if he did his mummy will probably wash his pants for him. Hatred was invented for people like this.
since no-one else has said it, I will – glad you didn’t!
That’s scary ****. I’ve never been in an almost-accident.
I have, however, had near-run ins with several deer. The rude ********.
Nice to see you didn’t cark it. After all, someones got to cut the cat’s hair once in a while
(Blech)
I took a deer out on the way to work earlier this year. Caused £600 worth of damage to my car ;(
Babs – driving on the wrong side of the road is *way* safer than trying to cut KK’s hair.
JJ – I’m not. I still wish I had.
Chris – I remember that. Poor deer 🙁
Fishboy – had that happen some time ago as well. BMW as well. ********. As a rule I now *never* let BMWs, 4x4s or people carriers out at junctions if I can avoid it.
It’s always BMW’s. Either that, or those new estate-agent Minis. Which are made by BMW, I believe. It’s amazing how true that cliche is. I’d never drive a BMW, as I’d be too concerned about the aura of complete dickhead that came along with the keys. The worst part of it was having to apologise to my passengers for nearly killing them, even though it wasn’t my fault.
Okay, that wasn’t the worst part.
Glad to see you’re still alive, by the way. I’m certainly glad that I am.
All BMW drivers should be slaughtered.
I remember a TV or radio show a while ago where the presenter was talking about cars. The guest said they’d just bought a BMW and the presenter said he had one for 6 months and got rid. As soon as he started driving it, he noticed that people weren’t letting him out from junctions and so on like they did in his old car.
And deservedly so.