Hello folks,
I write this as a cautionary tale more then anything, but also sometimes you need to get these things off your chest a little bit.
Yesterday i was working on the CX welding up the last bits of the inner front arch job. I got a phone call from my wife and she was in a bit of a state. There had been an accident and they were not involved but they needed me to come and get them.
It seems that as she approached a local junction known and used by us all the time. She had been about 10 yards from the giveway line when she heard a bang, the RTA type big bang, and the following flying of debris etc. Luckily her and my boys were totally un hit and un hurt but a Ford KA had turned accross the path of a transit coming the other way on the road she was planning on turning onto, its a 60mph limit stretch of road. The lady driver of the KA either didnt look or didnt see the transit, one of those things, human error.
Unfortunatly this is where things get worse as the lady in the KA had two boys of around 10 or so in the car with her and despite the fact she was relatively OK they were both killed outright at the scene. The KA had been virtually ripped in two and scattered far and wide. The transit had tried to swere to avoid her but obviously hit hard and this then rolled a couple of times onto the verge at the side of the road, the driver not seriously hurt.
I thank god, allah, buddah, lady luck and every other manner of things that my family were not caught up more directly and I have to say as an ex-recovery worker I've seen some accidents but as i had to go and pick up the wife and boys, as the police wanted to leave her renault where it was for recording and measuring etc , the scene of the accident was truly nasty.
I'm very proud of my wife and boys as they were calmer and more sensible then i would really have given them credit for. My elder lad called the police and helped direct traffic as did my wife and my younger boy sat and talked tothe lady of the KA until the emergency services arrived, to be honest i don't think she realised what had happened at the time and she certainly didnt realise the passengers had been killed, which was probably for the best.
So please be careful out there, please try to pay attention and most of all try and stay safe.
Thanks for putting up with my ramblings.
I write this as a cautionary tale more then anything, but also sometimes you need to get these things off your chest a little bit.
Yesterday i was working on the CX welding up the last bits of the inner front arch job. I got a phone call from my wife and she was in a bit of a state. There had been an accident and they were not involved but they needed me to come and get them.
It seems that as she approached a local junction known and used by us all the time. She had been about 10 yards from the giveway line when she heard a bang, the RTA type big bang, and the following flying of debris etc. Luckily her and my boys were totally un hit and un hurt but a Ford KA had turned accross the path of a transit coming the other way on the road she was planning on turning onto, its a 60mph limit stretch of road. The lady driver of the KA either didnt look or didnt see the transit, one of those things, human error.
Unfortunatly this is where things get worse as the lady in the KA had two boys of around 10 or so in the car with her and despite the fact she was relatively OK they were both killed outright at the scene. The KA had been virtually ripped in two and scattered far and wide. The transit had tried to swere to avoid her but obviously hit hard and this then rolled a couple of times onto the verge at the side of the road, the driver not seriously hurt.
I thank god, allah, buddah, lady luck and every other manner of things that my family were not caught up more directly and I have to say as an ex-recovery worker I've seen some accidents but as i had to go and pick up the wife and boys, as the police wanted to leave her renault where it was for recording and measuring etc , the scene of the accident was truly nasty.
I'm very proud of my wife and boys as they were calmer and more sensible then i would really have given them credit for. My elder lad called the police and helped direct traffic as did my wife and my younger boy sat and talked tothe lady of the KA until the emergency services arrived, to be honest i don't think she realised what had happened at the time and she certainly didnt realise the passengers had been killed, which was probably for the best.
So please be careful out there, please try to pay attention and most of all try and stay safe.
Thanks for putting up with my ramblings.
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But thought's going out for the people involved 