June 30, 2003
Travel worriers
Reading about Matthew's travel concerns reminded me I was going to post about my journey back from Cornwall. (I actually blogged at the time, with a rather long entry that unfortunately crashed blogplanet. Bah.)
When we travelled down to Padstow, the journey took us approximately 6 hours. Our return journey took closer to ten - because we encountered 4 crashes, one of which happened in front of our eyes.
The first crash was while we were waiting to turn left at a t-junction. On the other side of the road we were turning in to, a red car was trying to turn right, into the road we were on. An ambulance came up behind the red car, also wanting to turn right. The red car panicked, and pulled forward - before noticing a jeep coming down the road at about 60mph. The red car hit the brakes, the jeep swerved and missed it, but fishtailed and clipped the queue of cars behind the red one. It then bounced and rolled to a stop.
Neither the ambulance or the red car stayed around to see if the driver was alright.
The second accident was shortly after that, and looked like a head-on collision. We then got caught on the M5, where a multiple car pile-up closed the road for two hours. The pictures on the right are the bizarre scene of three lanes of cars parked, and people walking around waiting for the road to re-open.
The last accident was an overturned carivan on the hard shoulder - an unhappy end to someone's holiday.
I was extremely glad to get out of the car when we got home.
Posted by savs at June 30, 2003 3:13 PMAndrew Savory - caravan not carivan.
Don't you know nufink.